Le Zhang
Senior Research Scientist at Wayfair
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLe Zhang is a Senior Research Scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems across industry and defense. He holds a PhD in Informatics (speech recognition) from the University of Edinburgh and has driven production ML systems from speech and translation research to large-scale ads retrieval and supply-chain optimization. At Meta he improved ads monetization with embedding retrieval and conversion-focused models, and at Raytheon BBN he led cross-lingual information extraction and machine translation programs. Now at Wayfair he focuses on ML for supply chain technology, bringing a rare combination of deep academic expertise and hands-on production engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex research into deployable systems and to manage multi-year projects across teams. A long arc from speech recognition research to e-commerce ML gives him a practical knack for turning signal processing insights into scalable retrieval and optimization solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics (Speech Recognition), PhD Informatics (Speech Recognition) at The University of EdinburghMSc Computational Linguistics, MSc Computational Linguistics at Northeastern University of China
Chinese
Github Skills (73)
nix10
cortex10
firmware10
qmk10
arm10
nixos10
linux10
keyboard10
avr10
atmel10
rp204010
nrf5284010
nixpkgs10
entropy10
kicad10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lzhang10/maxent
Jun 2015 - Dec 2021
Maximum Entropy Modeling Toolkit for Python and C++
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 years 6 months
maximumentropypythonmachine-learningmaximum-entropy
lzhang10/qmk_firmware
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:76 pushes, 11 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 6 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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