Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jason WeiResearch Scientist, MSL · MetaResearcher↗DZ
Researcher
Denny Zhou
MetaResearch Scientist, Meta Superintelligence
Zhou helped develop chain-of-thought prompting, which asks a language model to show intermediate steps before answering a difficult question. He also co-created self-consistency, which compares several reasoning paths and chooses the answer they support most often, sharply improving results on math problems.
Career & education
Current roleMetaMar 2026-presentResearch Scientist, Meta Superintelligence
MetaMar 2026-presentPreviously
Google DeepMindSep 2017-Mar 2026Research Scientist and Director
Google DeepMindSep 2017-Mar 2026Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
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citations151,189As of Nov 1, '26
citations+6,572Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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Selected contributions
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi and others ·Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
With Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, Maarten Bosma, Gaurav Mishra, Adam Roberts, Paul Barham and others ·Presented PaLM, a large language model demonstrating gains in reasoning, translation and coding.
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Yi Tay, Rishi Bommasani, Colin Raffel, Barret Zoph, Sebastian Borgeaud, Dani Yogatama and others ·Examined abilities that appeared in larger language models but were absent in smaller ones.
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