Denny Zhou

AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence @ Meta

About

Founded and led the Reasoning Team in Google Brain/DeepMind. Laid out foundation for modern reasoning and Gemini Thinking, including chain of thought (CoT), self consistency, task decomposition, self correction, and CoT scaling. Received Google Research Tech Impact Award 2022 and WSDM Test of Time Award 2022. Distinguished keynotes in KDD 2023 LLM Day, and Grand Opening of Yale’s Institute for Foundations of Data Science in 2023. General Chair for the 1st Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2024.

Country

City

United States

Industry

Internet

Skill

Machine Learning, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Statistical Inference, C++

Experience

AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind

2017-9 - 2026-3 · 8 yrs 7 mos

- Founded and led the Reasoning Team in Google Brain/DeepMind (since 2021) - Formed the foundation for modern reasoning / LLM reasoning - Developed algorithms central for Gemini Thinking - Co-founded COLM in 2024, General Chair for COLM 2024 Public research work summary (before 2024): https://dennyzhou.github.io/LLM-Reasoning-Stanford-CS-25.pdf: chain of thought (CoT), self consistency, task decomposition, self correction, CoT scaling.