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Hao Zhang

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Software Engineer at Snowflake
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Hao Zhang is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, where he leads the Hao AI Lab, and a Software Engineer at Snowflake. A Ph. D. graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, his research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and systems. He has co-founded a non-profit, lmsys. org, and a startup, LMNet, which was acquired by Snowflake.

He is a key contributor to the open-source AI community, having co-founded and led the development of influential projects such as Vicuna, vLLM, and the Chatbot Arena for large language model evaluation. He is passionate about democratizing access to large AI models through open models, algorithms, and systems.

His company, LMNet, which aimed to make GenAI query data more accessible and valuable, was acquired by Snowflake in November 2023.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Software Engineer
Job Level
Junior
Location
San Diego, California, United States
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LLM Inference Systems
His research and projects, including vLLM and Alpa, focus on creating high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engines for large language models.
Open-Source AI
Co-founded lmsys. org and has led multiple popular open-source projects like Vicuna and Chatbot Arena to democratize access to large models.
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Career

Work history

11-2023
Software Engineer
Snowflake
7-2023
Assistant Professor
UC San Diego
6-2023 - 11-2023
Co-Founder
LMNet
1-2021 - 7-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Berkeley
Petuum, Inc.
5 yrs 1 mo
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Hao Zhang - Snowflake (Author Profile). Featured in Snowflake Blog
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Education
2014 - 2020
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Carnegie Mellon University
2014 - 2016
Master of Science (M.S.)
Carnegie Mellon University
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