Sharon Zhou is an AI engineering executive who co-founded Lamini and now serves as vice president of AI at AMD. Sharon Zhou's Twitter Score is 49 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #18,719 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Sharon Zhou co-founded Lamini and led it as CEO before AMD hired her and several Lamini employees in June 2025. AMD confirmed to CRN that the move was a hiring arrangement and not an acquisition. Prior to Lamini, the company had raised a $25 million funding round in 2024 from investors including AMD's venture arm, Andrew Ng, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, and Lip-Bu Tan.
Sharon Zhou previously served as adjunct computer science faculty at Stanford University, where she also completed her PhD. She formerly worked at Google as a machine learning product manager, and held product manager roles at Kensho Technologies and Tamr. MIT Technology Review named her to its 2022 35 Innovators Under 35 list in the AI and robots category. Sharon Zhou is also an angel investor.
Sharon Zhou has published 1,510 posts on the platform and has 28,390 followers as of October 2026. Her work has drawn attention from 18 accounts across 34 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Sharon Zhou include 211 founders, 70 angel investors, 25 influencers and 6 VCs. Among her notable followers are Marc Andreessen, Andrej Karpathy, Udi Wertheimer, Georgios Konstantopoulos, Sriram Krishnan and Elad Gil.