Huaizheng Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building ML systems and AI infrastructure, currently focused on ByteDance’s seed training infra for AGI pretraining, post-training and agent workloads. He holds a PhD from Nanyang Technological University and combines deep research experience in MLSys and LLM agents with hands-on engineering leadership at startups and hyperscalers. As a founding engineer at BreezeML he led AI lineage, compliance tooling and resilient preemptible-instance platforms for large-scale training, and has shaped production MLOps for multinational services at Alibaba. Prior roles include senior AI infra work at Instacart and instruction at NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute, reflecting a blend of product delivery, platform reliability, and teaching. Known among peers for connecting research-grade models to production infra, he quietly focuses on practical agent tooling that surfaces safety and compliance issues across complex data stacks.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sichuan University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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Huaizheng Zhang - Staff Research Scientist at ByteDance