About
Zheqing (Bill) Zhu is the founder and CEO of Pokee AI, a company developing foundation AI agents focused on planning, reasoning, and tool usage. He previously served as Head of the Applied RL Group at Meta AI, where he held the role of Senior Staff TLM. He holds a PhD in reinforcement learning from Stanford.
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Experience
- Pokee AIFounder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentBellevue, Washington, United States
- MetaSenior Staff Research Lead Manager - Head of Applied Reinforcement Learning2021 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- MetaEngineering Manager / ML Tech Lead2020 — 2021Menlo Park, California, United States
- MetaMachine Learning Tech Lead2019Menlo Park, California
- MetaMachine Learning Tech Lead2018 — 2019Menlo Park, California
- MetaMachine Learning Engineer2017 — 2018Menlo Park, California
Skills & more
Java30C++27Ruby on Rails22Project Management8Research8Machine Learning2Artificial Intelligence2Statistics2Big DataMatlab5JavaScript7Swift6
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PythonHTMLHadoopPhotoshopPremiereCSSWordPressC#Public SpeakingLeadershipTeam ManagementTeamworkLanguages Chinese · English · German
- Duolingo German Fluency: Beginner (Estimated) — Duolingo
- Certified Primary First-aid Medic of Red Cross — Chinese Red Cross Foundation
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- Who is Zheqing (Bill) Zhu?
- Zheqing (Bill) Zhu is the founder and CEO of Pokee AI, a company developing foundation AI agents focused on planning, reasoning, and tool usage. He previously served as Head of the Applied RL Group at Meta AI, where he held the role of Senior Staff TLM. He holds a PhD in reinforcement learning from Stanford.
- Where does Zheqing (Bill) Zhu work?
- Zheqing (Bill) Zhu is Founder of Pokee AI.
- What companies did Zheqing (Bill) Zhu found?
- Zheqing (Bill) Zhu founded Pokee AI.
- Where did Zheqing (Bill) Zhu go to school?
- Zheqing (Bill) Zhu studied at Stanford University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Reinforcement Learning); Stanford University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Duke University (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science).
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