Tianyi Zhou
Visiting Assistant Professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTianyi Zhou is a machine learning researcher and Visiting Assistant Professor with eight years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently based in Seattle. He has an extensive publication record (~130 papers) across top venues in ML, NLP, CV, and AI, and has held roles at MBZUAI, University of Maryland, Google, and University of Washington. His recent work probes how human learning principles (curriculum, curiosity, exemplar selection) can improve robustness and generalization of modern models, while also advancing controllable generative AI, synthetic data, self-evolving systems, and human-AI teaming. He develops methods around LLMs, multimodal foundation models, and reinforcement learning with an eye toward efficient, trustworthy, and environmentally friendly hybrid intelligence. A PhD from the University of Washington, he combines deep theoretical grounding with practical collaborations across industry labs and global universities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Washington
English
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Github Skills (9)
api-client5
python-client4
python4
api3
client-library3
natural-language-processing2
nlp2
apache1
apache-calcite1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tristan-Chow/hello-world
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
Tristan-Chow/Recommendation-System-based-on-TensorFlow
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 3 comments in 4 months
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