About Me

I am a member of technical staff at xAI. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2024. I have also spent time at Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Amazon, and an LLM startup.

I am enthusiastic about pushing the boundaries of foundation models through algorithms and data, with a focus on posttraining, midtraining, reasoning, and multimodal.

I am a core contributor to Grok 4, Grok 3, and Grok 2. I lead the development of the first-ever model to break 1400 score and achieve #1 across all categories in LMSYS Chatbot Arena. I am a surprise contributor to Grok image/video generation.