Eric Zhao

Eric Zhao

I'm a research scientist at OpenAI where I work on LLMs and reasoning.

Previously, I worked on a mix of theoretical machine learning, statistics, and game theory. My research has been recognized with a Neurips outstanding paper award and the Google PhD fellowship.

I received my PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Michael I. Jordan and Nika Haghtalab. Before my PhD, I received my B.S. in computer science from Caltech.

Selected Works

(α-β) denotes when authors are ordered alphabetically.

  • On-Demand Sampling: Learning Optimally from Multiple Distributions (α-β) Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan, Eric Zhao
    PDF Blog NeurIPS 2022
    Neurips Outstanding Paper Award
  • Truthfulness of Decision-Theoretic Calibration Measures (α-β) Mingda Qiao, Eric Zhao
    PDF Blog COLT 2025
  • Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification Eric Zhao, Pranjal Awasthi, Sreenivas Gollapudi

Selected Awards

  • Google PhD Fellowship (2024)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
  • NeurIPS Best Paper Award (2022)

Contact

eric28zh@gmail.com