Hey, I am Zhentao, a machine learning engineer specializing in LLM agents, agent memory systems, and large-scale distributed systems.
Currently, at LinkedIn, I am a Staff Machine Learning Engineer working on Agent and Agent Platform. See the publications page for some of my recent works.
Prior to LinkedIn, I was at Smule Inc working on music recommendation, and at Isuzu working on data infrastructure and anomaly detection. I am also a University of Michigan (UM), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) alumni. I was once a RA in the LIT Lab and HaptiX Lab.
During my spare time, I am also a guitar player and photographer. Check out my guitar performance here on Youtube!
News
May 2026
Graduated from UIUC — Completed my Master's in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
May 2026
Paper accepted at KDD 2026 — Our work on HLTM (Hierarchical Long-Term Memory) has been accepted to SIGKDD 2026.