Quanquan Gu is an associate professor of computer science at UCLA leading the Artificial General Intelligence Lab. He spent time as a research leader at ByteDance's Seed organization on AI-for-science and LLM optimization (including Seed-series work), then left in 2026; Chinese and international coverage report him founding Geodesic Intelligence focused on AI-driven drug discovery. His UCLA page and CV document theory and optimization research.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Associate professor of computer science
- Company
- UCLA
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
UCLA AGI Lab
Gu's UCLA faculty page describes him as associate professor of CS directing the Artificial General Intelligence Lab, with research spanning optimization, trustworthy ML, and foundation models.13
ByteDance Seed and Geodesic
SCMP reported ByteDance losing Gu, a key Seed research leader behind Seed models and AI-for-science efforts, amid a monetization push; subsequent coverage describes his Geodesic Intelligence startup for AI drug discovery.2
Timeline
- Left ByteDance Seed; later launched Geodesic Intelligence.2
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Where they work
- UCLA 7 people in the wiki
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026