Li Zhang
Assistant Professor at Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Zhang is an assistant professor at Drexel University specializing in natural language processing and AI, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a decade of industry and research experience. His background includes research internships at AI2 and IBM and software engineering experience at Goldman Sachs, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production-oriented engineering. He focuses on bridging cutting-edge NLP research with practical systems, mentoring students and collaborating across academia and industry. Joining Drexel in 2024 after a series of high-impact internships, he brings fresh perspectives on deploying research into real-world applications. Based in Philadelphia, he combines deep technical expertise with an eye for translational impact beyond papers and prototypes. An inquisitive collaborator, he often pursues interdisciplinary projects that connect core ML methods with deployable software.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE Computer Science at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
benchmark10
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
natural-language-processing9
ranking9
science9
react8
computer-science8
machine-learning8
temporal8
bert7
procedural5
datasets5
lda5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zharry29/wikihow-intent
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
zharry29/drums-with-llm
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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