Chengyuan Zhang
Teaching Assistant at McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolChengyuan Zhang is a PhD candidate and researcher specializing in stochastic modeling, driving behavior, and Bayesian learning, with seven years of experience spanning McGill, UC Berkeley, CMU and Oxford. He combines rigorous academic training (perfect 4.0 GPA through Master's and PhD work) with hands-on research in robotics and transportation systems, including visiting roles at top labs and a track record of award-winning deep learning projects. As a teaching assistant for traffic engineering and statistical machine learning, he blends strong pedagogy with technical depth and contributes practical educational resources—evidenced by LaTeX tutorial work on GitHub—to help researchers communicate complex methods. Actively seeking postdoctoral opportunities, he brings both interdisciplinary collaboration experience and a knack for turning probabilistic models into applied insights for autonomous systems and transport.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student (2018 Winter), Visiting Student (2018 Winter) at University of PennsylvniaBachelor's Degree, College of Automotive Engineering (Vehicle Engineering), Bachelor's Degree, College of Automotive Engineering (Vehicle Engineering) at Chongqing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, 4.0/4.0 at McGill University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (5)
jupyter-notebook10
latex10
documentation10
technical-writing10
tikz9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xinychen/latex-cookbook
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
LaTeX论文写作教程 (中文版)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:62 commits, 30 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chengyuan's commits primarily involve updating and creating content within the "latex-cookbook" repository, indicating a focus on documentation and tutorial-style content. The commits include the creation and modification of `.ipynb` files containing LaTeX code, descriptions, and examples, specifically covering topics like table creation, TikZ graphics, and other LaTeX features. The contributions aim to provide a comprehensive guide to LaTeX usage, likely for educational purposes.
postertexxelatexlatex
Chengyuan-Zhang/chengyuan-zhang.github.io
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:188 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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