AmazonMember of Technical Staff, Frontier AI Robotics Lab
2026 — Present
Tianhao Zhang co-founded Covariant in 2017 and joined Amazon's Frontier AI Robotics Lab in 2026. He previously researched at UC Berkeley and interned at Microsoft Research and MongoDB. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and statistics at Berkeley and left its doctoral program to build Covariant.
Tianhao Zhang co-founded Covariant in 2017 and joined Amazon's Frontier AI Robotics Lab in 2026. He previously researched at UC Berkeley and interned at Microsoft Research and MongoDB. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and statistics at Berkeley and left its doctoral program to build Covariant.
Career
CovariantCo-founder
Sep 2017 — 2026
University of California, BerkeleyGraduate Student Researcher
Jan 2017 — Aug 2017
MicrosoftResearch PhD Intern
Jun 2016 — Aug 2016
University of California, BerkeleyCS188 Head Student Instructor
Jan 2016 — May 2016
University of California, BerkeleyUndergraduate Research Assistant
May 2015 — May 2016
University of California, BerkeleyCS188.1x Course Facilitator
Feb 2015 — May 2015
MongoDBSoftware Engineering Intern
Jun 2014 — Aug 2014