Shantanu ThakoorSenior Staff Research Engineer; Gemini Diffusion Tech Lead · Google DeepMindResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Google DeepMindPrincipal Research Engineer
Zhang helped build OpenAI Five, a reinforcement-learning system that defeated professional Dota 2 teams. At Meta, she was a lead author of OPT-175B, released with model weights and detailed training records so outside researchers could study a frontier-scale language model. She now works on model research at Google DeepMind.
Google DeepMind2025-present
Google DeepMind2023-2025
Meta2021-2023
OpenAI2018-2020Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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