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Zhenlin Xu

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Machine Learning Scientist at Boson AI
📍 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Zhenlin Xu is a Machine Learning Scientist at Boson AI, specializing in LLMs, reasoning, and multimodal models. His expertise includes LLM alignment, synthetic data generation, and training agentic models. A graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his career includes roles at Amazon, Google, and NVIDIA.

He was a key contributor to "The Common Pile v0. 1, " a massive one trillion token dataset of public domain text created for pre-training Large Language Models.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Machine Learning Scientist
Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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LLM Alignment
His current work at Boson AI focuses on LLM alignment and building agentic models, a core part of his professional expertise.
Large-Scale Datasets
He recently promoted his team's release of "Common Pile v0. 1", a one trillion token dataset, showing his focus on large-scale data for AI training.
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Career

Work history

Machine Learning Scientist
Boson AI
Applied Scientist
Amazon
5-2021 - 12-2021
Research Intern / Student Researcher
Google
5-2020 - 8-2020
Research Intern
NVIDIA
8-2017 - 5-2020
Graduate Research Assistant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Education
2016 - 2022
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 - 2016
Master of Science (M.S.)
Rochester Institute of Technology
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