Zhentao Xu

Hey, I am Zhentao, a machine learning engineer specializing in LLM agents, agent memory systems, and large-scale distributed systems.

Currently, at Google, I am a Staff Software Engineer building Gemini Enterprise and agentic products. See the publications page for some of my recent works.

Prior to Google, I was at LinkedIn working on LLM agents and agent platforms, Smule Inc working on music recommendation, and 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

Oct 2026
New paper: PID-Gated Continual Prompt Adaptation Under Noisy Feedback — Our work on control-theoretic scheduling for robust prompt adaptation under noisy feedback is accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop: Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents. (paper)
Sep 2026
Joined Google — Joined Gemini Enterprise as a Staff Software Engineer, building Gemini Enterprise and agentic products.
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.