---
title: "Qianru Lao"
category: "people"
role: "Member of Technical Staff"
company: "OpenAI"
linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/qianru-lao"
website: "https://openai.com"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Qianru Lao

## Profile
Member of Technical Staff at [[openai|OpenAI]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/qianru-lao)
- [Website](https://openai.com)

## Biography
Qianru Lao is a Member of Technical Staff on the Inference team at [[openai|OpenAI]], where she works on infrastructure for large-scale model serving. Previously, she contributed to the open-source Delta Lake project at Databricks and worked on distributed storage systems at Alibaba Cloud and infrastructure tooling at Google. She holds degrees in Computational Science and Engineering from Harvard and Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-qianru-lao-routing-llm-inference-in-production-from-engine-signals-to-policy]] — Routing LLM Inference in Production: From Engine Signals to Policy (2026-07-01, 11:10am-11:30am)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-qianru-lao-routing-llm-inference-in-production-from-engine-signals-to-policy|Routing LLM Inference in Production: From Engine Signals to Policy]]

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