Chiqun Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiqun Zhang is an AI-focused Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft with eight years of experience building production ML systems, and over five years specifically advancing AI and search at Microsoft. He has driven high-impact work across query understanding, geospatial services, ranking with DNNs and transformers, and integrating GPT into enriched Bing Maps and Copilot experiences. Formerly a Principal Applied Scientist and Head of Data Science, he blends product leadership with deep research—shipping ETA prediction, SLAM-based indoor navigation, personalized autosuggest, and IoT energy analytics. His academic background (PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics and CS master’s from Carnegie Mellon) underpins strengths in scientific computing, numerical methods, and large-scale distributed systems. Colleagues value his ability to translate advanced mathematical modeling into user-centric, production-grade AI features.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering at Tianjin UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
flask8
pyramid8
lambda8
zappa7
aws-lambda7
serverless-framework7
bottle7
django7
serverless6
python6
api-gateway5
aws5
serverless-applications4
interpretable-machine-learning4
machine-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Bing-COVID-19-Data
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
A repo for coronavirus related case count data from around the world. The repo will be regularly updated.
Contributions:213 commits, 200 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
count-dataupdatedcase-count
chiqunz/Unsupervised_Models
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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