Zijian Zhang

Zijian Zhang

Applied Scientist

Copilot @ Microsoft

Biography

Hello! This is Zijian! 🧑‍💻

Currently, I am an applied scientist at Copilot @ Microsoft. Previously, I graduated from University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) with M.S.E. in Data Science. Before UPenn, I obtained my M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics (dual major) from the University of Michigan (UMich).

Interests
  • LLM Systems & Orchestration
  • AI Agents
  • LLM Evaluation
Education
  • M.S.E. in Data Science

    University of Pennsylvania

  • M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

    University of Michigan

  • B.S. in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics

    University of Michigan

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft
Applied Scientist
Mar 2026 – Present Redmond, WA
  • Microsoft M365 Copilot LLM Systems
  • LLM Evaluation
  • AI Agents
 
 
 
 
 
Meta
Data Engineer, Analytics
Dec 2025 – Feb 2026 Bellevue, WA
  • Advertisement Systems
 
 
 
 
 
Amazon
Software Engineer
Feb 2024 – Dec 2025 Seattle, WA
  • RAG and LLM systems
  • Large-scale Financial Systems
 
 
 
 
 
ClimateAi
Data Science Intern
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 San Francisco, CA
  • Web Scraping (Selenium, Beautiful Soup)
  • OpenAI Ada, GPT-3.5, GPT-4
 
 
 
 
 
AI at Wharton, UPenn
Research Assistant
Apr 2023 – Jun 2022 Philadelphia, PA
  • Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (AIAB @ Wharton)
 
 
 
 
 
University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Assistant
Jan 2023 – May 2023 Philadelphia, PA
  • CIS 5450 - Big Data Analytics
 
 
 
 
 
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor
Jan 2022 – May 2022 Ann Arbor, MI
  • EECS 492 Artificial Intelligence.
 
 
 
 
 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Michigan
Research Assistant
Oct 2020 – Nov 2021 Ann Arbor, MI
  • Deep Learning