Sharon Zhou
Summary
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RockstarSharon Zhou is Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at AMD and the former CEO and co‑founder of Lamini, a generative AI startup whose team and tech transitioned into AMD after raising over $25M at a $136M valuation. She teaches generative AI to nearly a million learners online and at Stanford, builds courses, and regularly speaks to audiences from top researchers to Fortune 500 leaders. A Stanford CS PhD advised by Andrew Ng, she led a 50+ student research group, published award‑winning work (top 1% NeurIPS), and contributed calibration and Brier‑score improvements to the influential BIG-bench benchmark. Equally comfortable in product, research, and startup execution, she focuses on algorithms and agentic data methods that reduce LLM hallucinations in production. Trained in Classics at Harvard (summa cum laude) and fascinated by ideas that last millennia, she blends technical rigor with a storyteller’s instinct — as likely to tweak benchmarking math as to quote Plato.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
workbench10
machine-learning10
testbench10
calibration10
python10
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
pytest8
tensorflow5
tensorflow25
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/BIG-bench
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Beyond the Imitation Game collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sharon focused on improving metrics and calibration within the `big-bench` project, a benchmark for language models. Their contributions primarily involved modifications to the `task_metrics.py` file, implementing and refining Brier score calculations for evaluating model performance. The user added tests, fixed bugs, and improved the documentation related to the scoring functions. They also ordered and normalized target scores to improve calibration metrics accuracy.
bertmachine-learningbenchmarkmeasuringbenchmarks
sharonzhou/generator
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:62 commits in 8 months
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