Brandon Zhang
AI Lead & Co-founder at Influcio
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Zhang is an AI leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems and startups from Cupertino. He led Apple’s Foundation Model Data and Machine Translation efforts, initiating a cross-organizational program to produce multilingual training data for Apple Intelligence. Previously a founding research scientist at DiDi Research LA, he drove conversational AI for customer service and secured first place in DSTC9 by fine-tuning early GPT models on human-annotated dialogs. More recently he’s focused on productizing generative AI for influencer marketing at Influcio and briefly led personal-AI efforts at PIN AI, blending research depth with go-to-market execution. Trained with a PhD in computer science and international study at KTH, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic engineering leadership. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns cutting-edge ML research into measurable business outcomes across complex, multilingual ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, English
Github Skills (42)
seq2seq9
encoder-decoder9
attention-model9
attention-mechanism9
transformer-architecture8
asr8
automatic-speech-recognition8
neural-machine-translation7
translation7
pytorch7
machine-translation7
hardware-acceleration7
speech7
whisper7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zblol/LORELEI
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:244 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
boliangz/Chinese_SF
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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