Houyu Zhang
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Unity
Beijing, United States
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Top SchoolHouyu Zhang is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Unity AI with nine years of experience building production ML systems that bridge research and real-world impact. Previously at Amazon, he led a 10+ scientist team developing lightweight generative LLMs and graph-enhanced language models, work that contributed to over $1B in annual monetization impact. His expertise spans pre-training, post-training, large-scale synthetic data curation, and integrating structured knowledge into LLMs for retail and conversational applications. Houyu combines technical leadership with hands-on modeling and data engineering, valuing clarity and precision in both code and strategy. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Brown and a BE from UESTC, and approaches engineering with a maker’s philosophy — “what I cannot create, I do not understand.” Based in Beijing, he focuses on making advanced AI accessible to game developers and ordinary users.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Brown UniversitySummer Credits Program International and Intercultural Communication, Summer Credits Program International and Intercultural Communication at UC Berkeley ExtensionCapital Normal University High SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Github Skills (32)
single-cell-analysis8
seq8
bioinformatics7
occupancy7
prediction7
insertion6
transcription6
factor6
preference6
sequence5
explore5
visual-analytics5
single-cell-genomics4
bam4
web-application4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HouyuZhang/MSmodification
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 7 pushes in 1 month
YenLab/Tn5InsertPrefer
Mar 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 34 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 5 months
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