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 (16)
auto-tuning10
gpu10
python10
numpy9
reinforcement-learning9
neural-network9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
machine-translation9
tensor8
autograd8
theano8
gpu-acceleration8
kernel6
tpu6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JianGoForIt/YellowFin_Pytorch
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
auto-tuning momentum SGD optimizer
Contributions:209 commits, 5 PRs, 292 pushes in 8 months
auto-tuning
JianGoForIt/YellowFin
May 2017 - Nov 2017
auto-tuning momentum SGD optimizer
Contributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 160 pushes in 5 months
auto-tuning
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