Tony Zhang
Founder & CEO at Tera AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Zhang is a founder and CEO building a venture-backed AI startup in San Francisco focused on cognition-inspired world models that deliver superhuman spatial reasoning. He brings a decade of experience bridging deep research and product: a Caltech PhD in Neural Computation and a prior role as Machine Learning Lead at Google X where he led geospatial AI teams tackling sensing, prediction, and optimal control for commercial and public-sector use cases. Tony’s work spans theoretical neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, and he has translated that research into applied systems across health-insurance optimization, global public health, and startup operations. Less obvious: he combines academic rigor with policy and international experience from roles at WHO and early-stage startups, helping him navigate technical, regulatory, and go-to-market challenges.
10 years of coding experience
California Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, German, French
Github Skills (9)
benchmark4
sac4
deep-reinforcement-learning4
reinforcement-learning4
deep-learning3
actor-critic3
pytorch3
dqn3
modular2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tonyzhang25/tonyzhang25.github.io
Apr 2019 - Aug 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:103 pushes in 5 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
tonyzhang25/tabular-RL
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:35 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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