Jian Zhang
Director And Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Zhang is a machine learning leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production AI systems and startups from Sunnyvale. Currently Director and Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA, he previously co-founded Nexusflow to democratize GenAI agents and served in senior ML leadership at SambaNova, blending research depth with product- and hardware-aware engineering. A Stanford PhD candidate in machine learning with an MSc from ETH Zürich and a BEng from Tsinghua, he has a strong track record in low-precision training, sparse models, and scalable ML system design. Jian moves fluidly between lab and product: he has led ML teams, shipped mission-critical models, and architected engineering stacks for inference at scale. Colleagues describe him as equally at home mentoring engineers and driving technical strategy, with an entrepreneurial impulse visible in founding a company that targets enterprise copilots.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at ETH ZürichBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronical Information Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronical Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityPh. D. in Machine Learning Computer Science, Ph. D. in Machine Learning Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
sgd10
python10
machine-learning10
optimizer10
autoencoder10
deep-learning10
gpu10
momentum10
auto-tuning9
numpy9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
optimization9
gpu-acceleration8
autograd8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HazyResearch/lp_rffs
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
JianGoForIt/YellowFin
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 160 pushes in 5 months
momentumoptimizationsgdoptimizertuning
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