Zhuohan Li is an AI research scientist and co-founder of vLLM, an open-source inference and serving engine for large language models. Zhuohan Li's Twitter Score is 24 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #41,380 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Zhuohan Li co-created vLLM and works at Meta as an AI research scientist. He previously worked at OpenAI as a member of technical staff, and earlier held research intern roles at Google Brain / Google DeepMind and Microsoft Research Asia, as well as a software engineering intern role at Anyscale.
Zhuohan Li is co-author of the paper introducing PagedAttention, the memory management technique underlying vLLM, which demonstrated a 2-4x improvement in throughput at equivalent latency. His work on vLLM was recognized with an a16z Open Source AI Grant and a Sequoia Open Source Fellowship. UC Berkeley contributed vLLM to the Linux Foundation in July 2024, and the project was accepted into the PyTorch Foundation in May 2025.
Zhuohan Li has published 267 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 3 accounts, with 4 total mentions.
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