Sharon Zhou, PhD

About

Hit connect to follow along! Follow some things I do or care about on X @realSharonZhou. The purpose of my work is to blend the magic of bleeding-edge technology with human warmth & stories, namely through teaching and building products. I have the great pleasure of teaching AI to nearly a million people, online and at Stanford. I love explaining this magical technology in simple terms (and jokes). My goal is to make the hard thing easy. I also regularly speak to live and online audiences of top AI researchers, Fortune 500 execs, policymakers—from 1 to 100,000s of people. Previously, I founded a generative AI startup Lamini, where we built infrastructure for enterprises to more easily remove hallucinations from LLMs on their custom use cases — specifically, via a mix of agentic data methods and post-training algorithms (mixture of expert LoRAs). We raised just over $25M at ~$136M valuation, before we transitioned to AMD. Before the startup, I was adjunct computer science faculty at Stanford in generative AI, where I also completed my PhD with Andrew Ng. At Stanford, I led a research group of 50+ students, published award-winning research, eg. top 1% paper at NeurIPS, and created a

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