Andy Zhang
Machine Learning Research Engineer II at RBC Borealis
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAndy Zhang is a Machine Learning Research Engineer II at RBC Borealis with nine years of experience building AI systems that bridge cutting-edge research and financial applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University and previously led ML initiatives in commodity trading at Olympic Industries, focusing on unsupervised learning, LLMs, and quantitative analysis. His background spans multimodal perception, robotics, and transformer architectures—work that includes a Transformer for partially observed multimodal data and human intent inference for robot navigation. Andy combines academic rigor from SFU and Purdue with hands-on industry impact, moving models from prototype to production in high-stakes domains. Based in Vancouver, he brings a rare mix of robotics intuition and large-model expertise that helps uncover structure in noisy, real-world datasets.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (1)
deep-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhitianz/intent-inference
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 1 push in 1 day
zhitianz/djiSDKcontrol
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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