Dr. Sharon Zhou is VP of AI at AMD and was the Founder and CEO of Lamini, an AI startup that was recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star. As a former Stanford faculty member, she led a 50+ person Gen AI research group and published award-winning papers in the field. Sharon teaches top courses on Coursera, including Fine-tuning LLMs and Diffusion Models, reaching millions of developers and executives. She earned her PhD in AI from Stanford, advised by Dr. Andrew Ng. She holds a BA in Computer Science and Classics from Harvard. Sharon was named to MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list.