Tianyu Zhao

Tianyu Zhao is a Research Engineer at Sakana AI since May 2024, previously serving as a Researcher at rinna株式会社 from October 2020 to April 2024, focusing on dialogue response generation systems. Prior to that, Tianyu worked as a Graduate Student Research Assistant at Kyoto University from December 2015 to September 2020 and briefly as a Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft in late 2019. Academic credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Informatics and a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Informatics from Kyoto University, as well as a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science from Peking University.