Bo Zhang
Founder at Simplex AI
Beijing, Singapore
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBo Zhang is a founder and AI researcher with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge computer vision research and product-focused engineering. After a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from HKUST, he progressed through research roles at Microsoft and DeepSeek before founding Simplex AI and joining Zhejiang University as an assistant professor. He has hands-on ML engineering experience optimizing inference and memory footprint for high-profile projects like the CVPR 2020 "Bringing Old Photos Back to Life" repo, indicating a practical focus on efficient, real-world image restoration. Comfortable moving between research and startup execution, Bo combines deep academic credentials with production-grade model engineering and a knack for squeezing performance from complex vision pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Optical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Optical Engineering at Zhejiang UniversityNankai High SchoolHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (10)
computer-vision10
pytorch10
image-restoration10
model-optimization10
generative-adversarial-network9
python9
machine-learning8
gpu-programming8
image-manipulation8
tensorflow3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Bringing Old Photo Back to Life (CVPR 2020 oral)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 release, 58 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bo primarily focused on modifications to the `Global/detection.py` and `Face_Enhancement/test_face.py` scripts, likely for fine-tuning image processing tasks within the old photo restoration project. The commits included adjustments to model loading, device assignment, and memory footprint optimizations within the detection component. These changes suggest a focus on improving the efficiency and performance of the image processing and model inference pipeline.
pytorchimage-manipulationimage-restorationcvpr-2020generative-adversarial-network
joneslee0918/deep-learning-example
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year
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