Bio

  • Kai Zheng is currently a research scientist at Microsoft AI. He contribute core deep models for Microsoft XiaoIce (微软小冰), Bing Search Ranking and Microsoft Copilot.
  • Creator of WizardLM, which contributed the state-of-the-art LLMs WizardLM, WizardCoder and WizardMath, I also created widely adopted methods Evol-Instruct.
  • Kai Zheng has published papers in top-tier international conferences, such as ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, KDD etc.
  • His research interests include large language model, reinforcement learning, multi-modal llm, dialogue systems, and information retrieval.
  • He received master’s degree (advisor was Houfeng Wang (王厚峰)) in Institute of Computational Linguistics from Peking University.

Recent News

Hiring

  • looking for highly self-motivated students to work with me as research interns

Publications

    *: Equal contribution

Working Experiences

  • ERNIE-team Baidu(百度文心), GLUE@Top1
  • LTR-team Baidu, Core Search Ranking
  • Reco Ranking Modeling team Kuaishou, Core Recommendation Ranking, Ship models on products Kuaishou

Academic Services

Program Committee for

  • ICLR 2025
  • NeurIPS 2024
  • NAACL 2024
  • COLM 2024
  • EMNLP 2022,2023,2024
  • ACL 2022, 2023
  • KDD 2022, 2023