Tao Zhang

Tao Zhang is a Principal Engineer at Amazon since August 2022, focusing on grounding large language models with high-quality web text and multimodal knowledge. Prior to this role, Tao Zhang served at Microsoft from March 2012 to August 2022, where as a Principal Software Development Engineer, contributions were made to the Microsoft Ads ranking platform and earlier as a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Bing multi-tenancy platform. Additional experience includes developing online advertising services at Microsoft AdCenter and working as a Research and Development Engineer at Apache Design Solutions, specializing in large-scale design automation software. Tao Zhang holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics from Tsinghua University and a Master's degree in Computer System and Architecture from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.