Summary
Zhihao Zhu is a Senior Research Engineer based in California with 9 years of experience building multimodal foundation models and conversational AI, currently leading efforts at Meta after five years focused on multimodal intelligence at Apple. He specializes in the intersection of computer vision and deep learning, with deep expertise in video foundation models, scene graph reasoning, image/video captioning, and detection/segmentation. His work spans both research and product-facing model development, translating academic advances from his Carnegie Mellon robotics training into scalable GenAI systems. Comfortable across academia and industry, he has tackled real-world perception problems since internships in special projects and self-driving research. Colleagues would describe him as a practical researcher who iterates quickly on multimodal prototypes while keeping an eye for system-level deployment constraints.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS General Engineering (Aitificial Intelligence track ), Master of Science - MS General Engineering (Aitificial Intelligence track ) at CentraleSupélec
Master of Science - MS Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Master of Science - MS Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Master of Science Robotics, Master of Science Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University