Irene Zhou
AI Engineer at HomeTeam Network
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIrene Zhou is an AI Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of software engineering experience bridging research and production. She completed an MSc at Université de Montréal where her thesis advanced document-grounded QA by combining extractive MRC with GPT-4 prompting to reduce LLM hallucinations and improve EM/F1 on hard SQuAD 2.0 cases. Her industry work includes building semantic code-analysis tooling, extensive data engineering with Cassandra and Elasticsearch, and test automation at Cisco using PyATS & Genie. Irene pairs hands-on model and prompt engineering with practical systems instincts—shipping reliable pipelines and parsers while supporting users across GitHub and internal communities. She also tutors and mentors STEM students, demonstrating an ability to explain complex topics clearly and lift individual performance. Known for treating “all code bright and beautiful,” she blends aesthetic care for code with rigorous evaluation of model behavior.
11 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 Université de MontréalNanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer at UdacityBSc with Honours , Computer Science, BSc with Honours , Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Chinese, English
Github Skills (32)
visual-analytics8
statistics8
computation7
toolbox7
r7
visualization7
data-mining7
regression7
classification7
cuda7
kaggle7
gpu6
data-processing6
cpu6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IreneZhou/Weiqi-Platform
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
IreneZhou/Blog
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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