Summary
Chuanhai Zhang is a research scientist and PhD candidate in computer science with 10 years of experience applying machine learning and computer vision to real-world products, currently building multimodal GenAI and AI agent features at Meta. He combines deep theoretical strengths in statistics and numerical methods (PhD-level work, 3.89 GPA) with hands-on experience shipping end-to-end ML systems at scale from Amazon and Meta, including uplift modeling for incentives and recommendation systems for ads and business posts. His research has produced practical solutions for imbalanced image classification and real-time endoscopy video analysis, and he has a track record of turning those prototypes into production tooling such as interactive annotation and visualization tools. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, Java, Spark and AWS, he bridges research and product by operationalizing advanced models and designing robust evaluation metrics. Notably, he pairs academic rigor with product impact—improving delivery and conversion metrics at Amazon and driving ads quality and content-understanding efforts at Meta.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Iowa State University
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shandong University
English, Chinese