# Tian Z. > Build Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tianz ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ Classie AI Jan 2025 – Present LM system, data and eval infra ### Principal @ SambaNova Systems Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States LLM inference, training, and all the scaffolding ### PhD @ Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Stanford Stanford DAWN Lab: https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/ Inference, training, and data infra ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Electrical Engineering Stanford University ### Bachelor's degree Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tian-z-7275302a --- Source: https://flows.cv/tianz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tianz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11