Kezhen Chen

Kezhen Chen is a Research Scientist at Meta, specializing in GenAI LLaMA research since October 2024. Prior to this role, Kezhen held the position of Staff Research Scientist at Together AI from January 2024 to October 2024, focusing on generative AI and large-scale LLM pretraining and fine-tuning. Kezhen has also worked as an AI Research Scientist at X, the moonshot factory, from June 2022 to April 2024, and as a Research Engineer at Microsoft from May 2019 to October 2021, contributing to deep learning projects. During academic pursuits, Kezhen completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University from 2016 to 2022 and a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Rochester from 2012 to 2016, where involvement in various research and internship roles further developed expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and software development.