Zhenmei Shi
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhenmei Shi is a Member of Technical Staff at xAI with eight years of experience building and researching AI-driven systems, currently focusing on coding RL for web development. She holds a PhD/MS track in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and brings a strong research-to-production background from internships and roles at Google, Salesforce, Tencent, MEGVII, and Oak Ridge. Her work blends deep learning research and software engineering—evidenced by multiple research internships and consecutive Google engineering internships—enabling rapid prototyping and deployment of ML systems. Based in Palo Alto, she moves fluidly between academic rigor and product-focused execution, having contributed to both university labs and industry teams. Notably, she has experience across global research environments (HKUST, ETH Zürich) which informs a broad perspective on scalable ML engineering. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic researcher who prioritizes shipping impactful, maintainable models and developer-facing tooling.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at Zhengzhou Foreign Language SchoolExchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at ETH ZürichHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
location6
evolution5
optical-flow5
scaffolding4
deep-learning2
pytorch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhmeishi/dvs
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
cpngaiaa/COMP3511
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:17 commits in 2 months
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