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Sharon Zhou

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Sharon Zhou

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CEO & Cofounder Lamini

Dr. Sharon Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Lamini, which won this year’s VentureBeat Gen AI Startup Award and is a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star. A former Stanford faculty member, she led a 50+-person Generative AI research group, published award-winning work in generative AI, and teaches Coursera courses on AI, including Fine-tuning LLMs. She earned a PhD in AI from Stanford under Andrew Ng and previously worked as an AI product manager at Google; she holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and Classics from Harvard and has served as an AI advisor in Washington, D.C., with recognition from MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Composing High-Accuracy AI Systems With SLMs and Mini-Agents

This session is repeated. For most companies, building compound AI systems remains aspirational. LLMs are powerful, but imperfect, and their non-deterministic nature makes steering them to high accuracy a challenge. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to build compound AI systems using SLMs and highly accurate mini-agents that can be integrated into agentic workflows. You'll learn about breakthrough techniques, including: memory RAG, an embedding algorithm that reduces hallucinations using embed-time compute to generate contextual embeddings, improving indexing and retrieval, and memory tuning, a finetuning algorithm that reduces hallucinations using a Mixture of Memory Experts (MoME) to specialize models with proprietary data. We’ll also share real-world examples (text-to-SQL, factual reasoning, function calling, code analysis and more) across various industries. With these building blocks, we’ll demonstrate how to create high accuracy mini-agents that can be composed into larger AI systems.