Jiawei Zhang
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiawei Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist at Meta with 11 years of experience applying cutting-edge machine learning to ads ranking and delivery. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Purdue and a B.Eng. from Zhejiang University, and blends rigorous research with production ML systems. His work spans interactive machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and large-scale data visualization—skills he demonstrated at Uber by contributing WebGL-enabled visualization layers to deck.gl and publishing a first-author paper at IEEE VIS. Based in Menlo Park, he is comfortable moving models from research prototypes into scalable infra for real-world impact. Colleagues know him for combining principled academic methods with pragmatic engineering to improve both model quality and user-facing analytics.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 3.95/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 3.95/4.0 at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
webgl10
threejs10
maps10
javascript10
data-visualization10
visualization10
deck-gl10
python10
geospatial-analysis10
occlusion8
layout5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rivulet-zhang/Isocontour-Based-Multiscale-Social-Media-VA
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:167 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
VaccinePurdue/TextTiler
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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