Summary
Zihao He is a research scientist and final-year PhD candidate at USC with eight years of experience researching LLMs, alignment and safety, and the societal impacts of large language models. Based in Menlo Park, he currently develops GenAI monetization and LLM auto-evaluation at Meta after multi-year research positions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and internships at TikTok and Amazon. His work spans NLP, computational social science, and graph representation learning, with applied projects including multimodal music description and multi-task learning improvements on benchmark datasets. Zihao blends rigorous academic training from USC and Tsinghua with hands-on production-facing research, uniquely focusing on evaluation methods that bridge safety concerns and commercial product metrics.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English