AI Research Scientist / Meta TBD Lab

Zhaodong Wang

I build production AI agents, ML systems, and research-to-product loops for software that has to work every day.

AI agents ML systems product engineering applied research

Current focus

Production agent systems.

I work on AI agents as shipped software: product surfaces, tool use, runtime behavior, evaluation, and debugging loops.

Systems
Production agents

Build agent systems around tool use, memory, evaluation, observability, and recovery paths.

Runtime
Product + infrastructure

Connect model behavior to product UX, orchestration, debugging surfaces, and release workflows.

Measure
Research to product

Use evaluation and production feedback to move promising behavior into shipped systems.

Current work

Agent platforms, from interface to runtime.

Agent platforms

User-facing agents with the runtime behind them.

Tool routing, memory, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and debugging views for behavior that has to survive real use.

Model-product loops

Evaluation as part of the product loop.

Instrument failure modes, compare behavior, and route high-signal cases back into model, tooling, and UX decisions.

Systems depth

ML systems and infrastructure experience.

Distributed systems, traffic engineering, applied ML, and product engineering, with a bias toward reliability and legibility.

Selected systems

Recent work in agents, ML systems, and infrastructure.

Meta TBD Lab / Agentic AI

Production agent platforms

Product and systems work on production AI agents, spanning user surfaces, tool use, runtime behavior, and evaluation.

Product + Modeling

Agent harnesses and eval loops

Harnesses that let agents use tools, retain context, recover from failures, and improve through measured feedback.

Meta / Netflix / Research

ML systems and network intelligence

Built prediction, optimization, automation, and applied ML systems for infrastructure at production scale.

Research

Selected public research and engineering work.

Background

Recent roles and training.

2022 - Present

Meta TBD Lab

AI Research Scientist working on AI agent products and systems.

2021 - 2022

Netflix

Senior Research Engineer on ML systems and production infrastructure.

Education

UIUC + Tsinghua

Ph.D. Transportation, M.S. Applied Mathematics, and B.E. Civil Engineering and Economics.

Contact

Agent systems, ML infrastructure, and AI products.