Simon Zhao
Head of Research, Heidi
Simon Zhao is listed as Head of Research, Heidi. Simon is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Simon is Head of Research at Heidi, the AI Care Partner behind about 2.7 million patient visits a week across 100+ countries. He leads the model team for Heidi Scribe, Dictate and Evidence. His team trains specialist open-weight models with reinforcement learning on clinician preference data, and those models beat frontier models including Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on clinician side-by-side evaluation. Simon is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Turn your data into AI advantage with Training in Microsoft Foundry Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Simon at events on B2DB.
- Meng Tang Partner GPM · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Shengtao Ma Lead Applied Scientist · Docusign 1 shared session
- Vijay Aski Partner Director · Microsoft 1 shared session
Others from Heidi
- Erika Denton Clinical Advisor 1 session