Feng Ziyuan is a machine learning engineer with nine years of experience blending data insight, model understanding, and strong coding ability to deliver practical ML solutions. Trained in data-driven modeling at HKUST and computer science at Fudan, he excels at building and refining neural models—evidenced by contributions to the fastNLP project where he implemented embeddings, attention, and LSTM components for character-level language modeling. Based in Shanghai, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with hands-on backend development, validation-driven training workflows, and a pragmatic “better code than never” ethos. Colleagues rely on him to move models from experimentation toward robust, well-tested implementations while keeping an eye on reproducibility and model selection.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Fudan University
Summer School International Program, Approximation Algorithms, Scheduling, Game Theory, A, Summer School International Program, Approximation Algorithms, Scheduling, Game Theory, A at Peking University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
fastNLP: A Modularized and Extensible NLP Framework. Currently still in incubation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Contributions:4 releases, 261 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Feng primarily worked on developing and improving a character-level neural language model, as indicated by the code changes and commit messages. Their contributions included implementing core components like embeddings, attention mechanisms, and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. The user also focused on training the model, incorporating validation steps, and saving the best-performing versions.
Contributions:138 commits, 69 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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