Edgar Zhu

I grew up in Shenzhen, China, and now live in Cambridge, MA.

I cofounded VizaSound, a GenAI platform for turning ideas into music and videos through simple conversations. Previously, I built backend serving infrastructure for YouTube Music, and before that worked on LLMs and agentic retrieval systems at Tencent.

I'm starting the MBAn program at MIT. I graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in Computer Science and Honors Economics, plus a Business minor. I did research with Matthew Shapiro and Gabriel Ehrlich on measuring smartphone prices while technology keeps progressing. I also spent last spring at PKU. It was fun.

Outside of work, I play soccer twice a week and occasionally convince other people to show up for training sessions.

I bookmark restaurants on Google Maps instead of Beli. I have no good reason for this.