Austin Zhao
Machine Learning Researcher at Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Zhao is a Cornell CS student (Class of 2026) and teaching assistant with a strong foundation in algorithms, discrete structures, and machine learning, complemented by minors in ECE, math, and physics. He brings 11 years of hands-on experience across software engineering, robotics, and data science—ranging from training bipedal robots with PPO to deep learning/GPU work at MathWorks. At Cornell he leads discussion sections and office hours for algorithm and discrete courses, demonstrating both technical depth and a talent for mentorship and curriculum development. He has driven curriculum strategy for nonprofit Steel City Codes and built testing and simulation pipelines for lab assistant robots, showing a blend of educational leadership and systems engineering. Comfortable at the intersection of high-level algorithms and practical implementation, he enjoys introducing others to computational and mathematical ideas while building reproducible tooling and simulations.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell UniversityMaster of Engineering Computer Science, Master of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell TechDual Enrollment General Studies, Dual Enrollment General Studies at Hunter CollegeHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Hunter College High School
Spanish, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
tekton10
cdf10
pipeline10
cloud-native10
google-cloud-build10
catalog9
experiment8
k8s8
tekton-pipelines8
libgit27
version-control6
git4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
austinzhao-go/pipeline
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
Contributions:4 PRs, 97 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
containerskubernetespipelinecloud-native
austinzhao-go/community
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Community documentation for the Tekton project
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
tekton
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