Tony Zhao
Co-founder & CEO at Sunday
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Zhao is a founder and research-driven CEO building robots to free humans to imagine and create, leveraging seven years of experience at the intersection of ML, robotics, and NLP. A Stanford CS PhD student turned entrepreneur, he led high-impact projects like ALOHA, Mobile ALOHA, and ALOHA Unleashed through collaborations with Stanford and Google DeepMind. His background includes hands-on ML work at Tesla Autopilot and robotics-focused residencies at X, backed by research on LLM calibration, data poisoning, and reinforcement learning from his time at BAIR. Based in Palo Alto, he combines rigorous academic training with product-oriented execution, and his startups’ hiring push suggests rapid scaling from lab prototypes to real-world robotic products. An uncommon strength is his track record of carrying complex research projects end-to-end—from arXiv papers to deployed systems and company formation.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS EECS, Bachelor of Science - BS EECS at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
robot8
multi-gpu8
few-shot-learning7
robotics7
pytorch6
deep-learning6
gpu6
modular5
machine-learning5
huggingface-transformers4
tpu4
gpt3
language-model2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tonyzhaozh/meld
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
tonyzhaozh/aloha
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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