Lei Zhang
Engineering Manager at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is an engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of professional experience bridging research and production engineering. He currently leads teams at Meta after a career that spans machine learning roles at Sears, applied research and software engineering at Adobe and Motorola, and a PhD focused on opinion mining, NLP, and data mining. Lei blends deep academic expertise in image/video processing and sentiment analysis with hands-on delivery of scalable systems across consumer and enterprise contexts. Colleagues know him for dreaming big while keeping work fun and pragmatic—prioritizing shipping results without losing curiosity. His background includes internships and research collaborations at HP Enterprise and multiple university labs, giving him a strong foundation in both experimentation and productization. Expect a leader who translates complex ML research into practical engineering outcomes and mentors teams to do the same.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityPh.D, Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis, NLP, Data Mining, Ph.D, Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis, NLP, Data Mining at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lei977/ssh-logistics-java
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
lei977/python-data-processing
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
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