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I am an investor, entrepreneur, and researcher with a Ph.D. in data-efficient machine learning from MIT.

Before MIT, I earned a B.A. in Physics and English from UC Berkeley. I’ve founded a few startups and a venture DAO, driven by the desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible and to create lasting impact with elegant solutions.

I enjoy reading, writing, and reflecting.

News Highlights

September 2024: PIN AI secures $10 million in pre-seed funding, led by a16z crypto. Read more
August 2024: Nature paper on achieving 60× faster processing in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Read more
July 2024: Joined the Apple AIML Residency to work on Apple Intelligence and Siri.
June 2024: Collaboration on Octo-planner with Nexa AI, featured by MIT CSAIL. Read more
May 2024: Congrats to Nexa AI from Stanford raises 15 million in seed funding. Read more
April 2024: Foundation model research on JetMoE highlighted by MIT CSAIL. Read more
March 2024: MyShell AI raises $11 million in pre-A round, led by Dragonfly. Read more
June 2023: Internship at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, focused on developing large language models for code generation.
June 2023: Nature paper on emergent ferromagnetism from low dimensional materials. Read more
May 2023: MIT-Takeda develops AI models for medicine manufacturing, reported by MIT News. Read more
Feb 2020: Appointed as Vice President at MIT Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization (MIT CEO). Read more
July 2019: Congrats to Prof. Xiang Zhang appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Read more

Publications

Recent publications and technical reports include work on multimodal models, language models, and data-efficient machine learning. View all publications

Writing

Pride Can Hold You Back: Lessons from My Time at Berkeley and MIT

This first post focuses on my personal experiences at Berkeley and MIT, highlighting how pride in my initial decisions led to both practical and emotional consequences.
Why Standing Still Is the Riskiest Move in a Changing World

This blog post dives into the broader industry insights I gained after ChatGPT’s release, and how pride in one’s current status can blind people to the rapid changes happening in technology.

Opportunities

If you’re seeking advisorship for venture funds or startups in AI, Crypto, and emerging technologies, connect with me on X or email me.

Patents

System and Method for Real-Time Determination of Particle Size Distributions in Dry Powders
Qihang Zhang, Ajinkya Pandit, Allan S. Myerson, George Barbastathis, Richard D. Braatz, and Zhen Guo

Projects

Gen-VQA: Generative Visual Question Answering with Abstract Scenes
Yifan Yang, Zhen Guo
MIT 6.869 Advances in Computer Vision, Fall 2019
[report] [code]
Hardware Efficient Quantum Computing via Circuit Decomposition
Tianyi Peng, Linsen Li, Kaidong Peng, Yufeng Ye, Zhen Guo
iQuHACK MIT Quantum Hackathon (first place), Winter 2019
[report] [code]