Justin Zeng
Graduate Research Assistant
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Zeng is an AI engineer and researcher with 12 years of experience, currently advancing multimodal and agentic ML workflows as a Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia Engineering. He builds production-ready LLM orchestration and RAG systems that translate complex, high-stakes research—ranging from EEG time-series prediction to clinical audit automation—into measurable enterprise impact. His background spans university research and industry engineering at AWS, TD Bank, and AI startups, where he delivered multilingual fraud detection, optimized distributed systems, and benchmarked agent frameworks across hundreds of edge cases. Justin combines signal processing and NLP expertise (LoRA, PyTorch, LangGraph) with a practical focus on Responsible AI and stakeholder-aligned deployment. He thrives in cross-functional teams solving non-obvious problems and, outside work, pursues skiing, travel, and culinary adventures—reflecting a taste for high-altitude challenges and diverse perspectives.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Informatics Magna Cum Laude Informatics, Bachelor of Science in Informatics Magna Cum Laude Informatics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at University of Washington Information SchoolMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Columbia EngineeringNewport High School
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Github Skills (26)
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft7
electron7
visual-studio7
editor7
csharp6
blackboard5
dotnet5
python4
mechanism3
titan3
theming2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jtzeng/pokesky
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 1 push in 1 year
jtzeng/pyweather
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 5 months
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