Summary
Changhong Zhang is an applied ML researcher and engineer with nine years of experience building production-ready AI systems and a strong academic foundation in statistics and data science. As a Research Assistant at GWU’s I²SDS he implemented a novel layer-wise GPT distillation using Wasserstein distance that improved perplexity and stability, and contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers on ML-driven optimization. He designs reproducible, cloud-native ML templates and teaching materials—supporting 150+ students—and has productionized RAG and agentic pipelines (OCR, BM25+FAISS retrieval, reranking) into Dockerized AWS services. Changhong blends competition-grade feature engineering (Top 2% in an AmEx Kaggle challenge) with practical tooling for experiment management, A/B sandboxes, and lightweight serving, and he is particularly focused on LLM optimization, decision-making in dynamic environments, and financial time-series modeling.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics at The George Washington University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics at Guangzhou University
Chinese, Chinese, English