Pei Zhou
@peizNLP
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Senior Applied Scientist @Microsoft #OAR | PhD @nlp_usc | X-@GoogleDeepMind @allen_ai @AmazonScience @UCLA | Common Ground Reasoning for Communicative Agents
Bellevue, WA
Joined July 2011
Having thoughts on how to build the future of human-agent group collaboration and can’t wait to enhance current frontier model’s social/communciation intelligence? Join us🔻! There’re lots of fun chats to be had 💬😎
🙌We are looking for a full-time research scientist in Microsoft's Office of Applied Research! This person will help lead the development of next-generation AI technologies to support groups of people - not just individuals - in getting their work done.
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Send your most proud open source projects our way, MLEs! Pretty sure this is an extremely exciting opportunity where you’ll be diving into solving impactful challenges with cutting edge science and research at the core.
We (Microsoft's Office of Applied Research) have a few openings for exceptional Research Engineers / MLEs to train, test, and scale the next-gen enterprise agentic systems to millions of copilot users. Apply today if you are up for the task! https://t.co/bwMXpYzNn0
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I couldn’t make it to #ACL2025, but excited to share our paper GenTool from @MSFTResearch and @EdinburghUni! https://t.co/awgwgXVYQq We introduce GenTool: a training framework that simulates zero-to-one and weak-to-strong tool transitions to boost tool generalization in LLMs.
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Jie He, Jennifer Neville, Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Hui Liu, Xiaofeng Xu, Xia Song, Jeff Z. Pan, Pei Zhou. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. 2025.
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Heading to #NAACL2025 w/ @peizNLP @soshsihao We are hiring full-time scientists on LLM post training, long-context reasoning, agents, and reinforcement finetuning. Please reach out if you are interested in chatting at the conference!
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Internship alert! We have an immediate part-time research intern opening at Microsoft’s Office of Applied Research to improve LLM reasoning. Please reach out if you or your students are interested!
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Many @Microsoft Office of Applied Research #OAR members will attend @NeurIPSConf this week: @ylongqi @BahaarehS @peizNLP @sharma_ashish_2 @soshsihao @bhecht & myself. We are hiring (both spring & summer) research interns, FTEs and postdocs. Please reach out if you're interested!
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Friends and colleagues! I'm on the academic job market in Fall 24/Spring 25. My research intersects NLP, IR, and HCI and I develop interactive and personalized models to aid workflows where knowledge workers find, consume, and produce information. Please help spread the word! 🧵
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Ph.D. research intern (Spring and Summer): https://t.co/fxNW6do3Cv FTE: https://t.co/tWU4EVX5Cc Catch @soshsihao and me for more info!!
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A bit late to the #EMNLP2024 party but hyped to talk to folks tmr abt anything from complex real-world reasoning, simulation for generalization, interactive learning to (hiring links below!!) Office of Applied Research and best bars in Miami 😋
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Join @_jennhu 's lab doing awesome cool research at CogSci x AI✨ I'd apply if time rewinds :)
I'm recruiting PhD students + postdocs for my lab, coming to @JohnsHopkins in Fall 2025! Our brand new lab is at the intersection of cognitive science and AI, using computational + behavioral methods to understand how language works in minds and machines. Details below! (1/4)
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Life update: I defended my Ph.D. thesis and have joined @Microsoft's Office of Applied Research (OAR)! One big takeaway from my Ph.D study is that -- research is all about translating ideas into impacts. I feel blessed to work with talented researchers who share the same values!
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Life update: I graduated🎓 last month and joined this awesome team @Microsoft Office of Applied Research 🤩 📢 We are hiring! 🦙 Attending @COLM_conf? Let's chat! DM me or find me on Whova 🙌 Not at COLM? No worries! Apply for research internships here:
Meet @Microsoft Office of Applied Research at @COLM_conf: @peizNLP @mengtingwan @sharma_ashish_2 @soshsihao @MSheshera and myself. We are hiring interns, postdocs, FTEs to shape and redefine the future of GenAI, M365 Copilot and productivity. Please reach out!
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Freshly out of oven job post for research interns! (FTE incoming) https://t.co/fxNW6doBs3
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Freshly out of oven job post for research interns! (FTE incoming) https://t.co/fxNW6doBs3
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🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨 Heading to #COLM in Philly? The Office of Applied Research is hiring interns and full-time researchers! Join us to work on cutting-edge projects like interactive learning, LLM reasoning, synthetic data, personalization, human-AI collaboration, and [INJECT
Meet @Microsoft Office of Applied Research at @COLM_conf: @peizNLP @mengtingwan @sharma_ashish_2 @soshsihao @MSheshera and myself. We are hiring interns, postdocs, FTEs to shape and redefine the future of GenAI, M365 Copilot and productivity. Please reach out!
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🙄Agent planning is too slow! ⏭️How to accelerate agent planning? We propose ➡️ Interactive Speculative Planning ⬅️ two components: 👉 system level Speculative Planning use a fast agent to draft 👉 UI-level: user can actively interact with the system during large latency
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Self-Discover is now accepted in NeurIPS-24!! #neurips2024
There is an old Chinese saying: 千人千面 (Thousands of people and thousands of faces). Just as each person is unique, each problem is unique. How do we prepare LLMs to solve complex unseen problems through reasoning? Our (@USCViterbi, @GoogleDeepMind) new paper: Self-Discover:
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