Kaixu Zhang
Self Employed at 自由职业
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKaixu Zhang is a machine learning and NLP specialist with 14 years of experience building production-grade language and search systems at top Chinese tech firms and now as an independent practitioner in Shenzhen. He led core NLP engineering efforts at Baidu (word segmentation, POS, NER) and contributed to Tencent projects spanning WeChat/QQ search, WeChat Pay, game AI, and the AlphaGo-style FineArt Go system. With a Ph.D. from Tsinghua and postdoctoral research focused on deep feature learning for Chinese language tasks, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on system rewrites and deployment experience. Comfortable in Linux and Python, he has a track record of turning research models into scalable training and decoding tools for real-world search and payment products. As a freelancer since 2020, he now applies that product-facing ML expertise to varied clients and projects, often tackling legacy system modernization and NLP pipeline optimization. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of deep research credentials and pragmatic engineering discipline.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, 88.8, Ph.D., Computer Science, 88.8 at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
julia7
mutation6
mxnet6
portable6
golang5
deep-learning5
scheduler5
scala5
machine-learning5
python5
dep5
javascript5
data-science4
analyzer4
lexical-analyzer4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhangkaixu/isan
May 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:468 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
zhangkaixu/minitools
Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:53 commits in 4 months
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