Cheng Hou
Project Manager at Colliers Engineering & Design
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCheng Hou is a construction and design professional turned machine learning engineer who blends nine years of hands-on structural engineering, design coordination, and construction management with graduate-level computer science training. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has managed large K–12 and data center programs, developed project dashboards and cloud project databases, and recently applied software and AI to streamline real project workflows. His ML work includes fine-tuning LLMs, building RAG pipelines and KBQA systems for enterprise platforms, and contributing backend fixes and model conversion improvements to an open-source PyTorch pre-training framework. Comfortable translating between construction stakeholders and engineering teams, Cheng brings a rare hybrid of field-tested construction delivery and practical ML/engineering execution.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (10)
pytorch10
nlp10
trainings10
bert10
modeling10
python9
tensorflow9
classification9
model-conversion9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dbiir/UER-py
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Open Source Pre-training Model Framework in PyTorch & Pre-trained Model Zoo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 23 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Cheng primarily contributed to the UER-py framework by addressing data processing bugs, updating and converting BERT and T5 models, and adding the classification target. They made changes to data loading, model conversion scripts, and the training process. Additionally, the user added support for various features related to model training, including support for classification tasks.
chinesebertbartxlm-robertamodel-training
hhou435/TencentPretrain
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Tencent Pre-training framework in PyTorch & Pre-trained Model Zoo
Contributions:44 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
pytorchpre-trained-modeldeep-learningpre-trainedtencent
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