Wanzheng Zhu
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolWanzheng Zhu is a software engineer at Google DeepMind with 11 years of experience applying deep research to real-world products, specializing in agents, LLM post-training, reasoning, factuality, grounding, and model routing. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC, where his research spanned conversational AI, euphemism detection on social media, human mobility modeling, and evaluation metrics for generated text. At DeepMind he works on Deep Research initiatives (including Deep Search and the Deep Research Agent via the Gemini API), model routing to direct queries to the best LLM, and rigorous evaluation of helpfulness, safety, and grounding. He blends academic rigor with product impact—having moved research prototypes into features like mobile notification recommendation—and brings deep expertise in trajectory/response generation and knowledge construction. Based in Mountain View, he combines a strong research pedigree with hands-on engineering to improve LLM reliability and user-facing relevance.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. & Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S. & Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (29)
sentence9
electra9
caffe9
pytorch9
similarity9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
deep-learning9
sentence-similarity9
nlp9
roberta9
speech-recognition8
python8
bert8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WanzhengZhu/GRUEN
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
GRUEN for Evaluating Linguistic Quality of Generated Text (EMNLP 2020 Findings)
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nlpevaluation-metricsbertlinguisticnatural-language-processing
WanzhengZhu/GPS
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
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