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Denny Zhou

DZ

Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence at Meta

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.

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Background

Current role
Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Mar 2026-present
Previously
Sep 2017-Mar 2026Research Scientist and Director,
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26140,560112,33684,112Aug 25, '25Jun 1, '26Aug 1, '26Sep 1, '26
140,560citations as of Sep 1, '26+5,518 since Aug 1, '26
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