Zheng Shi is a team lead and technical leader in data science and artificial intelligence at IBM. His areas of interests include machine learning, deep learning, mathematical optimization, algorithm development, and data analytics.

Zheng received his Ph.D. degree in 2022 and worked as a part-time research assistant (2016-2022) on designing and analyzing machine learning algorithms at Lehigh University. Zheng joined IBM as a data scientist in 2013. Prior to joining IBM, he received his M.S. in operations research from Lehigh University.

Zheng was born and raised in Qingxu (Est. 497 BC) of China, and earned two undergraduate degrees, B.Econ in Finance from Nankai University and B.A. in English from Tianjin University.