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Haining Zheng

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Principal AI Scientist at ExxonMobil
📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Haining is a Principal AI Scientist at ExxonMobil, where he serves as an Enterprise AI Strategist. An MIT PhD graduate, he has delivered over $100M in business value by leading the development of scalable machine learning systems. Colleagues describe him as sharp, dedicated, and an effective leader.

Outside of his core scientific role, Haining is passionate about community building. He founded and leads ExxonMobils global AI Community of Practice with over 2, 000 members. He also served as the Founding President for the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Alumni Association of Greater Boston.

Unique fact: Haining has personally trained and enabled more than 1, 000 professionals across ExxonMobil in applied AI.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Principal AI Scientist
Job Level
Middle
Location
New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
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Enterprise AI Scalability
His work focuses on scaling enterprise AI initiatives and applied ML systems across a large, technical engineering organization to deliver significant business value.
Agentic AI Workflows
He has recently shown a strong interest in the explosion of Agentic AI, emphasizing the need for robust guardrails and foundational principles in its development.
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Career

Work history

6-2021
Principal AI Scientist
ExxonMobil
1-2024
Tech Lead for Enterprise AI Drilling Pod
ExxonMobil
10-2022 - 3-2024
MODS Program Lead for LCS
ExxonMobil
8-2007 - 9-2013
Research Assistant/ Reserch Engineer
BP-MIT Energy Initiative
3-2012 - 4-2013
Founding President and Co-Founder
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Alumni Association
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Education
2009 - 2013
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 - 2008
M.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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