Hi, I'm

Lei Zhou

Ph.D. Data Scientist

Building Production GenAI & Agentic Applications

About Me

A passionate data scientist turning complex AI research into production-ready solutions

Cary, NC

Ph.D. Data Scientist with 6+ years of experience building scalable data and ML systems. Currently focused on Production Generative AI and Agentic Applications at Lenovo. Passionate about turning complex AI research into practical, production-ready solutions.

6+
Years Experience
20+
Projects Shipped
2
Innovation Awards
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Current Role

AIOps Advisory Researcher

At Lenovo, building production GenAI applications and multi-agent systems for enterprise operations.

Education

Ph.D. Neuroscience

McGill University

B.S. Biochemistry

Wuhan University

Featured Projects

Production-ready GenAI and Agentic applications I've built

Featured

Autonomous Development Agent

AI agent that builds software autonomously - plans tasks, generates code, runs tests, fixes errors, and learns from outcomes.

PythonAnthropic Claude APICLIMemory PersistenceTest Automation
Featured

AgentOps Smart SRE

Production MVP for automated Root Cause Analysis of multi-agent system failures with real-time progress streaming.

FastAPIPostgreSQLRedis/RQNext.jsSSE Streaming

ChartAgent Demo

Interactive AI dashboard with Text-to-Chart capabilities via conversational prompts and code generation.

StreamlitPlotlyPandasDuckDBOpenAI API

Skills & Expertise

Technologies and methodologies I work with daily

AI/LLM

LLM IntegrationOpenAI APIAnthropic ClaudePrompt EngineeringFine-tuningRLHF

RAG & Search

RAG SystemsVector DatabasesPineconeEmbeddingsSemantic Search

Agentic Systems

LangChainLangGraphMulti-Agent SystemsTool CallingAgent Orchestration

Data & ML

PythonPyTorchTransformersNLPPandasScikit-learn

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDockerKubernetesOpenTelemetryCI/CD

Backend

FastAPIPostgreSQLRedisNode.jsREST APIsGraphQL

Work Experience

My professional journey building data and ML systems

AIOps Advisory Researcher

Lenovo
Aug 2024 - Present
Morrisville, NC

Leading AI/ML initiatives for enterprise operations, building production-ready GenAI and Agentic applications.

  • -Built Self-Service BI Agent (Text-to-Chart) enabling natural language data visualization
  • -Developed Smart Infrastructure MVP with S3, ETL pipelines, and analytics dashboards
  • -Created AgentOps MVP with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis/RQ, and OpenTelemetry integration
  • -Implemented real-time streaming and evidence-first analysis for automated Root Cause Analysis
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisNext.jsOpenTelemetryLangChain

AI Training Contractor

Outlier.ai
Oct 2024 - Present
Remote

Contributing to AI model improvement through advanced evaluation and training methodologies.

  • -Conducted multi-turn prompting evaluation for complex conversational AI scenarios
  • -Performed agent tool calling evaluation to improve function-calling capabilities
  • -Applied RLHF techniques and Prompt Engineering for model refinement
RLHFPrompt EngineeringLLM Evaluation

Data Scientist

Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health)
Jul 2017 - Aug 2023
Remote

Built ML/NLP solutions for healthcare analytics, earning multiple innovation awards.

  • -Developed NLP and Neural Network models using Transformers for medical text analysis
  • -Created medical procedure grouper system (Innovation Award)
  • -Built frequent pattern mining solution (Client Success Award)
  • -Shipped Watson Change Detection production code for enterprise deployment
PythonPyTorchTransformersNLPSQLSpark

Get in Touch

Have a project in mind or want to discuss AI/ML opportunities? Let's connect!

Open to discussing new projects, collaborations, or opportunities in GenAI and Agentic systems.