Website and profiles
Lianmin Zheng's homepage says he is a member of technical staff at xAI leading the inference team for Grok, after a PhD at UC Berkeley advised by Ion Stoica and Joseph E. Gonzalez. Zheng co-founded the nonprofit LMSYS.org. The site lists SGLang, FastChat, Alpa, FlexGen, and contributions to vLLM, plus Vicuna, Chatbot Arena, and LMSYS-Chat-1M.12
At a glance
- Current roles
- Member of Technical Staff; inference lead (homepage) +1 more
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Open models and serving
Zheng is a first author of "SGLang: Efficient Execution of Structured Language Model Programs" (NeurIPS 2024) and a first author of "Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference" (ICML 2024).12
Work and contributions
Where they work
Related people
- Igor BabuschkinAlso at xAI
- Yuhuai WuAlso at xAI
- Byron HsuAlso at xAI
- Ying ShengAlso at xAI
- Christian SzegedyAlso at xAI
- Marina DanilevskyEvaluation and benchmarks · Language models
- Waseem AlShikhLanguage models · Inference and serving
- Aylin CaliskanEvaluation and benchmarks · Language models
- Stella BidermanLanguage models · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Diogo AlmeidaLanguage models · Evaluation and benchmarks
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2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 25, 2026 · data updated Oct 25, 2026