Zirui Zhu

Zirui Zhu is an accomplished engineering manager specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, currently serving as Engineering Manager for Core AI at LinkedIn since November 2024. Prior to this role, Zirui held positions as ML Engineering Manager at Samsara, where the focus was on enhancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability through AI, and at Twitter, where responsibilities included personalizing content for the Home Timeline Feed and leading impactful projects in machine learning. Zirui's foundational experience includes a role as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter, creating a topic-based recommendation system, and a Teaching Assistant position at Carnegie Mellon University teaching Distributed Systems. An internship at InterSystems involved developing a smart meeting minutes generator using natural language processing. Zirui Zhu holds a Master's Degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a Data Mining and Business Intelligence certification from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics from Renmin University of China.