Haojun Zhao
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaojun Zhao is a PhD biomedical engineering researcher and software-minded data engineer with four years of experience building robust MRI processing pipelines for large-scale neurological studies. He has led development of multimodal MRI co-registration, quantitative susceptibility mapping, and brain and spinal cord metric extraction while supporting clinical trials and a web-based MRI classification platform at UCSF. Now a Graduate Research Assistant at UT Austin’s DMIC Lab, he blends electrical and computer engineering foundations (BS/MS from Ohio State) with practical skills in Python, SQL, and web tooling to translate complex imaging data into clinically useful metrics. Haojun also brings teaching experience across microcontrollers, machine learning, and digital design, which helps him mentor students and communicate technical work to clinicians. Quietly entrepreneurial, he maintains a presence as a research engineer at Hugging Face on GitHub, signaling an interest in open research tooling and ML-enabled workflows.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree (not complete) Electronic Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree (not complete) Electronic Information Engineering at Kunming University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (31)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
evaluation10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zzhhjjj/nanotron
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Minimalistic large language model 3D-parallelism training
Contributions:53 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
zzhhjjj/transformers
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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