Jiyang Zhang is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on large-scale AI and LLM agent research and engineering, currently contributing to Google Cloud AI and DeepMind to advance Gemini’s agentic capabilities for software development. He holds a PhD-level trajectory at UT Austin and has applied his research in industry internships at AWS (LLM for code and agents), Salesforce, and Microsoft, blending academic rigor with product-facing ML work. His background spans machine learning engineering and research roles across leading labs, with early experience at Université de Montréal and Infimind and teaching algorithms at UT Austin. Comfortable moving between research and production, Jiyang specializes in making LLMs practical for developer workflows and autonomous coding tasks. Based in Austin, he maintains a public presence via jiyangzhang.github.io and brings a strong academic-to-industry pipeline perspective that helps bridge novel research with deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Beihang University
Computer Engineering, 4.0, Computer Engineering, 4.0 at University of Toronto
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