Zangwei Zheng
郑奘巍, Ph.D.
Full Stack Developer & AI Researcher Tech Lead at HPC-AI Tech
About
Hi, I'm Zangwei👋, founder of Open-Sora and VideoOcean. I'm working on AI-powered video generation and SaaS products that bridge research and real-world creativity.
I earned my Ph.D. from 
National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Yang You. I had my research intern in 
Bytedance, mentored by Xuan Zhou and Youlong Cheng. I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from 
Nanjing University (NJU). I worked remotely as a research intern at 
UC Berkeley for a year, mentored by Dr. Xiangyu Yue and Prof. Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. You can find more about my background in my CV.
🔬 Research Interests: Video Generation, Efficient ML and DL (Deep Learning) Optimization.
Latest News
VideoOcean Agent Online
VideoOcean Agent Online
🌊 VideoOcean Agent is now online! Generate videos up to minutes with a few clicks.
Ph.D. Graduated
Ph.D. Graduated
🎓 Graduated from HPC-AI @ NUS. Thanks to my supervisor and friends' help!
Open-Sora 2.0 
Released!
Open-Sora 2.0
🚀 Despite constrained computational resources, it achieves Sora-level metrics, fulfilling our goal of providing an open-source implementation of Sora.
VideoOcean Online
VideoOcean Online
🌊 VideoOcean is now online! Generate your own video with a few clicks.
Check out my latest work
From research to web applications. View the full list of publications on Google Scholar.
Open-Sora
The world’s first open-source Sora-like video generation model — bringing efficient, high-quality video production to everyone.
VideoOcean
VideoOcean is a video generation platform that allows you to generate videos, images and audios with state-of-the-art models.
Instruction in the Wild
This project focuses on building a larger and more diverse instruction dataset by collecting 110K instructions from shared ChatGPT usage.
Skills
Internship & Work Experience
Awards & Honors
Research Achievement Award of NUS
ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
AAAI 2023 Distinguished Paper Award
Papers with Code Contributor Award
Outstanding Graduates of Nanjing University
Academic Services
CS5242: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Algorithm Analysis & Design
Invited Talks
Nvidia, invited by Yuyang Zhao
Nvidia, invited by Yuyang Zhao
Efficient Training with Open-Sora
National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore
Video Generation Model
Did you know?
A few interesting things about me
AI Tools
The AI models and services I use are handpicked for their performance and reliability.
Academic Lineage
I am a 18th-generation academic descendant of Isaac Newton! From Newton to the present — a centuries-long mentorship chain spanning over 350 years.
Family Lineage
I am a 99th-generation descendant of You Ji (姬友), Duke Huan of Zheng (郑桓公) from ~800 BC! My family lineage spans over 2,800 years of Chinese history, from ancient Zhou dynasty to the present.
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