Chiyu Zhang
Research Scientist at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiyu Zhang is a research scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and eight years of experience advancing NLP, deep learning, and social media mining, now based in Sunnyvale. Her work spans industry research internships at Meta, Google, and Microsoft and visiting research at MBZUAI, where she tackled multilingual evaluation, model compression, and socio-pragmatic analyses of LLMs. She has driven applied projects—improving recommendation systems with contrastive learning and LLMs, benchmarking LLM tool-use for cybersecurity, and distilling generative models for style transfer—demonstrating both methodological rigor and production awareness. Comfortable both leading experiments and teaching graduate labs, she blends analytical depth with strong communication and collaborative instincts. A detail-oriented scientist, she has a track record of translating billion-scale social media and multilingual data into robust representation learning and practical system gains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Science/Studies, Ph.D., Information Science/Studies at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science (M.S.), Data Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Data Science at Clarkson University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (72)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
multiclass-classification10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
adapter10
pytorch10
evaluation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chiyuzhang94/PTSM
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
chiyuzhang94/chiyuzhang94.github.io
Nov 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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