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Shizhe Diao

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Research Scientist at NVIDIA
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Shizhe Diao is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA focusing on efficient and agentic foundation models. His award-winning work involves the pre-training, efficient-tuning, and alignment of large language models, drawing from his Ph. D. at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Outside of his research, Shizhe has a strong interest in competitive robotics, having led a team to a second-place finish in the World Robot Olympic Competition. He also has a passion for various water sports, including swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, and sailing.

Unique fact: Shizhe represented China and won second place out of 56 countries in the World Robot Olympic Competition held in India.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Research Scientist
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Agentic AI Models
His current title and research focus on developing efficient agentic foundation models, co-authoring papers on the future of Small Language Models in agentic AI.
Open-Source Research
Frequently expresses pride in NVIDIA's open-source contributions like Nemotron and his involvement in creating popular open-source toolkits such as LMFlow.
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Research Scientist
NVIDIA
1-2024 - 6-2024
Research Staff
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
9-2021 - 7-2022
Research Intern
ByteDance AI LAB
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Education
8-2023 - 1-2024
Visiting Scholar
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9-2021 - 12-2023
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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