Hongyi Zhang
Research Scientist at ByteDance
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongyi Zhang is a research scientist in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, nonlinear optimization, and Bayesian inference. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT and has blended deep academic research with industry impact through roles at ByteDance and research internships at Facebook and TTIC. Notably, his internship work contributed to practical advances in data augmentation and robust neural networks, and his background includes graphical models and urban scene understanding for autonomous driving. Hongyi combines theoretical rigor with applied problem-solving, routinely translating probabilistic models and optimization techniques into scalable solutions for large-scale ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyN/A, Guanghua School of Management, N/A, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
Github Skills (48)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
cifar1009
numpy9
neural-network9
densenet9
efficientnet9
resnet9
backbone8
clustering8
gpu-acceleration8
gtk8
autograd8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hongyi-zhang/mixup
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
hongyi-zhang/Fixup
Mar 2019 - May 2019
A Re-implementation of Fixed-update Initialization
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 month
re-implementationupdate
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