Hua Zheng
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolHua Zheng is a Senior Research Scientist at Meta with a decade of experience building large-scale analytics, search, and recommender systems informed by rigorous academic training (PhD in Engineering) and an MS in Statistics. His work bridges deep reinforcement learning, stochastic optimization, physics-informed deep learning, and graphical models, with hands-on production experience in distributed systems like Spark, Solr, and AWS. He has led cross-disciplinary projects from a Pfizer-collaborative digital-twin platform to cold-start forecasting libraries at AWS, demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge research into deployable ML solutions. Comfortable moving between theory and engineering, he also supervised PhD students and contributed novel modeling (e.g., Bayesian causal recommendation) while operationalizing large streaming pipelines processing billions of events. Based in Sunnyvale, Hua blends mathematical depth with pragmatic system design, often applying physics-inspired priors to accelerate learning in real-world ML tasks.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Statistics, Master of Science (MS), Statistics at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Shandong UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
choices6
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
arxiv3
identity2
wsc2
reinforcement-learning2
algorithms2
pdf2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhenghuazx/EHR-RL
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
The potential for the use of AI is dramatic especially as it can assist family clinicians who are usually overloaded with patients to make better choices for treatment of their type 2 patients in order to help prevent hyperglycemia, hypertension and CV risk outcomes.
Contributions:179 commits, 2 PRs, 130 pushes in 2 years 7 months
deep-learningpatientsriskmachine-learningassist
zhenghuazx/toxic-comment
Mar 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
obscenityhatetoxicitydetectingidentity
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