Zichao Li is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist based in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI systems that bridge research and engineering. He specializes in LLMs, agentic and multi-agent orchestration, and multimodal generative learning, with hands-on expertise in JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. At Accenture he architected core agent designs for the AIRefinery™ platform—shipping real-time voice agents, task-planning super-agents, and multi-user orchestration—after research work on multimodal generative models at Google DeepMind. He holds a master’s in Machine Learning and Data Science from UC San Diego and briefly pursued a PhD at UC Santa Cruz, reflecting a blend of rigorous academic grounding and product-focused delivery. Notably, he’s skilled at taking complex research prototypes through SDK design and scalable backend integrations for enterprise deployment.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor's degree, EE, Bachelor's degree, EE at Nanjing University
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