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Zhengyan S.

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Senior Researcher at Microsoft
📍 United Kingdom

Zhengyan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft focusing on enabling language models to reason and code. He holds a PhD from University College London and has prior experience at Amazon and Cohere, working on model post-training and applied science.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Senior Researcher
Location
United Kingdom
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LLM Reasoning
His core research at Microsoft and his PhD work center on enhancing the reasoning and planning abilities of large language models.
AI & Code
He actively researches teaching language models to generate code, with publications on topics like viewing language models as compilers and text-to-SQL tasks.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Senior Researcher
Microsoft
5-2024 - 10-2024
Intern of Technical Staff
Cohere
10-2020 - 9-2024
Teaching Assistant
UCL
7-2023 - 10-2023
Applied Scientist
Amazon
10-2022 - 1-2023
Applied Scientist
Amazon
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Education
2020 - 2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
UCL
2019 - 2020
Master's degree
UCL
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