Zhuoran Shen
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhuoran Shen is a machine learning engineer and researcher with nine years of experience building and fine-tuning large-scale models for reasoning, coding, and perception, currently advancing Grok and Grok Code at xAI. He previously led code LLM pre-training and post-training at Augment Code, delivering state-of-the-art results and an open-source agent that topped SWE-bench Verified. His background spans research and applied ML roles at Google Brain, Cruise, Pony.ai, SenseTime and Tencent, including early Transformer and linear-attention contributions with 1500+ citations. At Google he developed global self-attention networks and worked on OWL-ViT for zero/few-shot detection; at Cruise and Pony.ai he productionized ML for planning and motion prediction. A Hong Kong University alumnus, he blends deep research pedigree with production engineering chops and a competitive streak—he’s a top-tier Terran in StarCraft II. Known for moving ideas from papers into deployed systems, he thrives at the intersection of model innovation and real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Reciprocity Student Computer Science, Bachelor's Reciprocity Student Computer Science at University of California, DavisThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
attention-mechanism10
bash10
infrastructure10
self-attention10
raise10
lookup-table10
warp10
ratatui10
scenic10
logger10
sasl10
linux9
google-logging9
rust9
shell9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cmsflash/timekeeper
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 issues in 5 years 10 months
cmsflash/efficient-attention
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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