I’m a machine learning engineer, writer, and songwriter.

Born and raised in Beijing, I studied at Columbia for college and received my Master’s degree from CMU. I currently live in the Bay Area and work at Meta on ML and LLM development for ads privacy.

Past Projects

zhouyao.live 🔗, an LLM app that shows how I’m spending my time.

https://what-is-zhouyao-doing.streamlit.app/?embed=true

Paper Machine **🔗, summaries of interesting papers that I’ve read recently.

Fusion 🔗, a publication where I record snapshots of my thoughts at random, discrete moments in life.