Yaowei Zheng

Author of PenguinHarness and LlamaFactory

Zheng Yaowei is the co-founder and CTO of PrismShadow, and a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science, Beihang University. He is the author of LlamaFactory, an open-source fine-tuning framework for large language models, which has garnered over 70,000 stars on GitHub. He has published more than 10 papers in top-tier conferences and journals including ACL, CVPR, and AAAI, and serves as a reviewer for AAAI and EMNLP. He has received honors such as the Beihang Role Model Award and the Ascend Ecosystem Open Source Outstanding Contribution Award, and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at industry summits including the AI Computing Conference and the Alibaba Apsara Conference. Currently, he leads his team in building PenguinHarness — an open-source, transparent, self-evolving agent engine designed for 1000+ models, enabling agents to autonomously complete AI development tasks and grow increasingly powerful through continuous evolution.