Summary
He Zhang is a PhD-level informatics researcher and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience blending academic computer vision and biomedical machine learning research with hands-on product and data-science roles. Currently a Teaching Assistant at Penn State and an AI-focused intern at Genentech, he has a track record of cross-disciplinary research in affective computing, sentiment and emotion analysis across VR, IoT, and social networks from top institutions including Tsinghua and HKUST. He combines rigorous quantitative skills (data cleansing, PCA, regression, anomaly detection) with practical engineering experience from database administration to technical support, enabling reproducible research and production-ready prototypes. Outside the lab he’s a coffee connoisseur, crêpe enthusiast and cat lover—small rituals that fuel long experiments and teaching commitments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science in Computer and Mathematics, First-class honors, Master of Science - MS, Master of Science in Computer and Mathematics, First-class honors at Auckland University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at Penn State University
Bachelor's Degree, Double majors in Computer science & Data science, Bachelor's Degree, Double majors in Computer science & Data science at Massey University
Chinese, English, Chinese