Ruiqi Zhong
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuiqi Zhong is a research-focused software engineer and Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab, where he advances human–AI collaboration. He is driven by a vision of aligned AGI and practical human-in-the-loop systems, with hands-on work in LLM safety and collaboration. His background spans academia and industry, including a PhD trajectory at UC Berkeley, research roles at Columbia University and UC Berkeley, and industry research internships at Microsoft Research and Anthropic, culminating in current work at Thinking Machines Lab. He has interdisciplinary experience across NLP, sentiment relation extraction, computational biology, and theory of computing, reflecting a broad research footprint. Based in Berkeley, CA, he earned a BS in Computer Science from Columbia University (with earlier credits from Georgia Tech) and brings nine years of experience delivering research-driven software in academic and industrial settings.
9 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 California, BerkeleyTransferred, Credits Towards Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Transferred, Credits Towards Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.00, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.00 at Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese, English
Github Skills (60)
artificial-intelligence9
python9
nlp8
transformer-architecture8
sequence8
ctc8
gpt-48
language-modeling8
ai8
gpt-28
facebook8
openai8
neural-machine-translation7
pytorch7
sentiment-analysis7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruiqi-zhong/DescribeDistributionalDifferences
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:33 commits, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
ruiqi-zhong/presentations
Oct 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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