Former MIT AI PhD Weijia Shi Joins Anthropic
WeijiaShi2 · x · 2026-07-29
AI researcher Weijia Shi announced she has relocated to San Francisco and officially joined Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff.\n\nIn her new role, she will work across pretraining and societal impacts. During her PhD at MIT, her research spanned multiple core areas including data, pretraining, post-training, scaling laws, evaluation, and ecosystem safety.
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