Zhiqing Sun is an AI research scientist with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge academic research and product-facing ML efforts, currently at Meta’s MSL TBD Lab after leading post-training research at OpenAI. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and has held research roles or internships across top institutions including Google Brain, MIT-IBM Watson, MSR Asia, MILA, and AI2, reflecting deep expertise in large models and language agents. At OpenAI he led research on ChatGPT agents and deep research initiatives, demonstrating a rare mix of foundational research and systems-oriented impact. Based in San Francisco, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on work shipping advanced ML research into real-world agents and tooling. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained cross-institutional collaboration network, which accelerates translation of novel ideas into deployed capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Peking University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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Zhiqing Sun - AI Research Scientist MSL TBD Lab at Meta