Shengjia Zhao

AI Scientist

Chinese Beijing, China

Quick Info

ProfessionAI Scientist
NationalityChinese
BirthplaceBeijing, China

Latest News about Shengjia Zhao

25/07/2025

Shengjia Zhao was formally appointed as Chief Scientist of Meta's newly launched Superintelligence Lab on July 25, 2025, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He co-founded the lab and works directly with Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang to direct its scientific direction, focusing on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) and advancing Meta's Llama models. The lab aims to drive foundational AI research and integrate next-generation AI systems across Meta's platforms.

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Bio/Wiki

Known ForBeing co-creator of ChatGPT

Physical Stats & More

Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Educational Qualification(s)

Colleges
  • Rice University, Texas, USA
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Stanford University, California, USA
Degrees
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (2016)

Personal Life

ReligionBuddhism
EthnicityAsian

Career

OverviewShengjia Zhao has significantly influenced the AI landscape through his groundbreaking research and roles in prestigious organizations. His journey began with core studies in Computer Science at reputed universities, leading him to co-create revolutionary technologies such as ChatGPT and its subsequent versions.
Key Highlights
  • Joined OpenAI in October 2022, contributing to the development of ChatGPT and GPT-4.
  • Recognized with the ICLR 2022 Outstanding Paper Award for his research contributions.
  • In June 2025, transitioned to Meta as the co-founding Chief Scientist of the Superintelligence Labs, focusing on innovative AI research.
  • Co-authored the original ChatGPT paper.
  • Pioneered a new scaling paradigm for OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.
  • Led synthetic data efforts at OpenAI.
  • Joined OpenAI in June 2022 as a Member of Technical Staff, contributing to the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and several mini models.
  • In July 2025, transitioned to Meta as the co-founding Chief Scientist of the Superintelligence Labs, focusing on innovative AI research.
Research Focus
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Bayesian decision-making
  • Generative modeling
Achievements
  • Google Excellence Scholarship (2015)
  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2019)
  • JP Morgan PhD Fellow (2019)
PublicationsHe has published numerous influential papers in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, emphasizing variational autoencoders and AI safety.

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Shengjia Zhao was born and raised in Beijing, China.
2. He completed a semester-long exchange program at Rice University in Texas while studying at Tsinghua University.
3. Zhao was instrumental in developing OpenAIโ€™s reasoning model, o1, which improved chain-of-thought reasoning.
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