Sharon
Zhou

Dr. Sharon Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Lamini, which has won this year’s VentureBeat Gen AI Startup Award and has been recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star. As a former faculty member at Stanford, she led a 50+ person Generative AI research group and published award-winning papers in generative AI. Sharon teaches popular AI courses on Coursera, including Fine-tuning LLMs. She earned her PhD in AI from Stanford, where she was advised by Dr. Andrew Ng. Before her PhD, she worked as an AI product manager at Google. She received her bachelor's degree in computer science and Classics from Harvard. Additionally, Sharon has served as an AI advisor in Washington, D.C., and has been featured in MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list.