# Zachary Ziegler

> Zachary Ziegler is co-founder and CTO of OpenEvidence. A Cornell engineering physics graduate and Goldwater scholar, he studied machine learning and natural language processing at Harvard before building an AI search product for clinicians with Daniel Nadler.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at OpenEvidence
- **Organizations:** OpenEvidence, Harvard University, Cornell University, IMAX AI
- **Education:** BS, Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Machine learning PhD studies; degree completion unverified, Harvard University
- **Known for:** 2016 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Co-authored peer-reviewed natural language processing research, including Neural Linguistic Steganography (EMNLP 2019).

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Contributed to research in Jiwoong Park’s Cornell lab, including a Nature Nanotechnology paper.
- **2016** — Named a Barry Goldwater Scholar while studying engineering physics at Cornell.
- **2019** — Co-authored Neural Linguistic Steganography with Yuntian Deng and Alexander Rush.
- **2021–2022** — Co-founded OpenEvidence with Daniel Nadler; public sources vary on the exact founding year.
- **2025** — Discussed OpenEvidence’s product and research approach in public interviews and at Sequoia AI Ascent.
- **2026** — Spoke at GV AI Builders and STAT Breakthrough Summit West.

## Achievements

- 2016 Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Co-authored peer-reviewed natural language processing research, including Neural Linguistic Steganography (EMNLP 2019).
- Co-founded and serves as CTO of OpenEvidence.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Spoke with STAT at its Breakthrough Summit West in San Francisco about OpenEvidence’s relationships with health systems.
- **2026-01** — GV published a conversation with Ziegler about product iteration and OpenEvidence’s growth.
- **2025-11** — Appeared on The Tech Glow Up podcast to discuss the product and its adoption.

## Links

- Website: https://www.openevidence.com/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/zackmziegler

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Last updated: 2026-09-29