Kezhen Chen's Homepage
Research Scientist
(Google) X, the moonshot factory
Staff Research Scientist, Together AI 2024 - present
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Research Scientist, Google X 2022 - 2024​
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Computer Science Ph.D, Northwestern University 2016 - 2022​
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond 2020 Summer​
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Research Engineer, Microsoft Research, Redmond 2019 - 2020​
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond 2019 Summer​
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Research Assistant, Vista AI Lab, University of Rochester 2013 - 2016​
Research Assistant, HCI Lab, University of Rochester 2015 - 2016​
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EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
LLM Pretraining and Finetuning
I am interested in novel LLM architecture and pretraining.
2016 - 2022
Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Qualitative Representation and Reasoning
I am interested in modeling human-like symbolic qualitative representations&reasoning, analogical reasoning, case-based reasoning.
Multimodal Foundation Model
I am interested in working on building the state-of-the-art multimodal foundation models.
Neural-Symbolic
I am interested in taking advantage of tradition symbolic reasoning and deep learning. I aim to design deep learning models combining traditional symbolic reasoning as inductive bias.
2012 - 2016
University of Rochester
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science