Mapping the semantic atlas

Explorer, AI-Native Advocate, Behavior Designer

Leon Zhao

A builder who develops and evaluates AI products, connecting quality, cost, and user value through data science and behavior design.

Leon is a builder.

He builds and evaluates AI products, and designs the systems that help organizations adopt them well. His work draws on behavior design, data science leadership, causal inference, and machine learning.

His work spans AI product evaluation, quality and cost measurement, reusable workflows, enterprise systems, advertising platforms, and products for gig earners.

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Products shaped by evidence.

Across Dropbox, Slack, TikTok, and Uber, Leon has paired product development with quantitative practice.

01 Dropbox · Slack AI · Enterprise

AI and enterprise systems

At Dropbox, Leon is on the Dash AI team. At Slack, he developed quantitative solutions for unstructured business problems in the Enterprise domain.

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02 TikTok Ads · Experimentation

Advertising product prototypes

At TikTok, Leon led data science for advertising product prototypes and automated ad solutions. He also introduced best practices and guidelines within the Ads experimentation platform.

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03 Uber Earners · Experiments

Experimenting for earners

At Uber, Leon tackled difficult earner problems through extensive experimentation and helped pioneer the Uber One Earner launch, the first multi-platform earning mechanism of its kind for gig earners.

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Start with a question.

Reach out to talk about AI-native workflows, product measurement, behavior design, data science leadership, or causal inference.

leonzhao705@gmail.com