Eric Zhao
Research Scientist at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Zhao is a research scientist and PhD candidate in computer science at UC Berkeley with about a decade of experience advancing AI foundations and applications. He has worked across leading labs—Google Research, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Uber—and currently focuses on reasoning research at OpenAI, bringing deep expertise in large language model methods and algorithmic bias mitigation. His background spans reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, computer vision for autonomy, and practical LLM techniques, reflecting a rare blend of theory and production-oriented research. Based in San Francisco, he combines Berkeley AI Research rigor with industry-scale experimentation, often translating academic ideas into deployable systems. Notably, his trajectory shows a pattern of tackling robust decision-making and fairness in models, signaling a long-term interest in trustworthy, high-impact AI.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (69)
python10
entity-linking10
deep-learning10
cython10
ml10
ai10
neural-network10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
text-classification10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
named-entity-recognition10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ericzhao28/NetDetect
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
End-to-end differentiable model for botnet detection using GRUs with additive attention.
Contributions:11 PRs, 107 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 11 months
botnet
ericzhao28/activelabelshiftadaptation
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 172 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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