© Zihao (Chris) Hong

Resume

Full-time

MeituanStrategy Analyst

Beijing · 2025.05 — now
  • Competitive research across the service chainThe fallback strategy it identified is now piloted on Meituan Waimai and Hotel & Travel.

    8 / 16sub-businesses

    Details

    As LLM customer service scaled (coverage reached 50% across all businesses by the end of 2025), studied Ctrip, Alibaba, ByteDance and Ele.me across the portal → AI service → human service chain.

    Responsible for 8 of 16 sub-businesses; led alignment, interview design, expert sourcing and the benchmark database.

    Identified the fallback of routing unresolved AI cases to a human at the survey step; now piloted on Meituan Waimai and Hotel & Travel, balancing AI coverage with experience.

  • New product shapes for AI serviceDefined the two shapes of human oversight and their cost logic; cycling and power-bank shipped on cost target.

    Details

    Mapped supervision, quality inspection and agent assist across competitors; defined human oversight as pre-handoff (live tagging for data flywheel, human-in-the-loop for multimodal gaps) and post-handoff (one person supervising many AI sessions via an inspection model) — two shapes, each with its cost logic.

    Benchmarked coverage and closure rates to guide adoption; cycling and power-bank teams shipped it on cost target.

  • Service resourcing structureVisited two suppliers; the crowdsourcing study supported doubling the managed cloud-agent pool.

    2research reports

    Details

    As AI reshapes staffing and outsourcing, owned the resourcing agenda: the Q3 2025 industry resourcing survey, BPO market research and crowdsourced-operations research.

    Framework from demand shifts → BPO competition → responses → Meituan's gaps; visited two BPO suppliers, surfaced supplier tiering (Alibaba) and order splitting (Pinduoduo); delivered the B-team report.

    Conclusions back the move to BPO 2.0 and cloud agents; the selection-and-retention study helped double the managed cloud-agent pool.

  • Service strategy for high-value usersDrove proactive-service iterations on Waimai and Hotel & Travel, saving six figures monthly.

    7businesses, 5 companies

    Details

    Self-initiated under pressure on high-value experience goals; built a tiering — entitlements — validation framework, benchmarked 7 businesses at 5 companies (88VIP, JD Plus and others) on four dimensions, and tested every product including Meituan's own.

    The report spread through KPs and drove proactive-service iterations on Waimai and Hotel & Travel, such as early outreach on cooking, pickup and delivery anomalies.

    Testing exposed rule conflicts behind poor resolution for high-value users; the fixes lifted AI resolution for high-value users and save six figures of labour cost monthly.

  • Team AI workflowsMeeting notes went from one person-day to ten minutes, spreading to the recruiting team.

    5people use it daily

    Details

    With Claude Code, turned interview-note processing, research gathering, competitor monitoring, database upkeep, report templates and test frameworks into reusable team Skills.

    Meeting notes went from one person-day to the ten-minute level; five people use it daily and it spread to the recruiting team.

Project

SottoreadProduct Owner · personal project

Beijing · 2026.06 — now

An AI reading companion for long-form Chinese, on the web since August 2026. The AI stays silent by default and speaks only where the reader gets stuck; every session leaves a file of your own rather than a generic summary.

  • Problem and positioningThe problem is "read it but did not understand it", not "no time to read" — a different race from summarisers.

  • Design and decision methodRestraint quantified as an interruption budget (five per session); 82 annotated passages ruled out intent guessing.

    50decision records

  • AI capability and cost structureSeven call sites, each with its own model, thinking budget and streaming policy; hence the ¥28–38 monthly judgement.

    0.43¥ per full read

  • Working with AIA written charter: restate the request, plan first, approve diff by diff, deliver on a branch.

    571commits · live in 33 days

Education

Duke UniversityM.A. in Economics

Durham · 2023.08 — 2025.01
  • GPA3.83/4.0

New York UniversityB.A. in Mathematics and Economics

New York · 2019.09 — 2023.06
  • GPA3.63/4.0, Dean's List

Internships

China Merchants SecuritiesMacro research intern

2024.03 — 2025.02

China Capital ManagementInvestment analysis intern

2022.09 — 2022.12

China SecuritiesEquity research intern

2022.06 — 2022.09

Skills & languages

  • LLM appsPrompt architecturePrompt cachingFunction calling
  • ToolingClaude Code
  • StackNext.jsPrismaPostgres
  • DataPythonStataWindBloomberg
  • LanguagesChineseEnglish (GRE 331)

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