Shibo Zhou

Welcome to Shibo's home on the Internet.

Hello, my name is Shibo Zhou. I am a computer programmer and make a living by writing code at Exa. I studied Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Earlier, I co-founded a space robotics startup, General Astronautics, backed by Y Combinator (W26) and an angel investment from Paul Graham.

Major projects

State of the Art Search Over Academic Publications

It can retrieve papers from natural language descriptions even when the query is vague or inaccurate. We’ve found that its search performs significantly better than Google Scholar and other major AI powered search engines, such as Perplexity and Parallel.