Lu Zhang

Codex Ambassador @ OpenAI

About

https://luzhang.info/Interests: startups, side-questing (convos with uber/lyft drivers)Curious about: 1. Your Uber/Lyft convos2. AI's effects on humans3. Designing digital products to feel more like you (human)Happy to connect.

Country

United States

City

Los Angeles

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Coding Experience, Strategic Partnerships, Consulting, Customer Acquisition, Product Development, Translation, Data Analysis, Sales, Storytelling, Team Leadership, Teamwork, Decision-Making, Strategic Thinking, Time Management, Presentation Development, Public Relations, Marketing Strategy, Creative Problem Solving, Creative Strategy, Presentations

Experience

Codex Ambassador

OpenAI

2026-4 - Present · 6 mos

Looking for communities to co-host with

Chatgpt Lab

OpenAI

2026-3 - Present · 7 mos

1/46 students selected across the US & Canada to experiment with GPT, Top 1% user, 25.21K emdashes

NLP Researcher at Coalas Lab

UCLA

2026-1 - 2026-3 · 3 mos

LLM research: Read, Critiqued, Synthesized a lot

Student Ambassador

Adobe

2025-11 - 2025-12 · 2 mos

Community building

Product Manager

Stealth Startup

2025-6 - 2025-12 · 7 mos

Los Angeles, CA

Making AI more emotional with data labelling

Founder

HopeThruCranes

2020-9 - 2024-12 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Mental health art therapy org, Reached 900+ students across 12 countries, Featured in Gulf News (3M readership), Trended for 7 days

SDG Competition Team Lead

AIESEC

2023-12 - 2023-12 · 1 mo

Pitched Fairfashion to Boston Consulting Group and L'Oreal people, won 1st/52 teams

Product Manager

TWIG Finance

2023-3 - 2023-6 · 4 mos

Made spending habits smarter

Education

UCLA

Economics

Relevant coursework: Intro to Econometrics Data Science for Economics NLP for Social Science Programming with R Statistics for Economists Logic: First Course Computer Mediated Communication Principles of Oral Communication