Liangkai Zhang
Principal Research Engineer at NVIDIA
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolLiangkai Zhang is a Principal Research Engineer based in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building computer vision and generative AI systems across top-tier tech labs. He has led on-device and product-facing vision efforts at Google and Apple and now focuses on Cosmos and World Foundation Models at NVIDIA, bridging research-quality models with production constraints. His background spans mobile and spatial computing (Vision Pro, iPhone/iPad) as well as confidential research at Google Brain, showing a knack for shipping privacy-sensitive, resource-efficient ML. Trained in electrical and computer engineering with roots in optics, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to model design and deployment. Colleagues know him for moving smoothly between deep research and engineering execution, often translating experimental ideas into scalable system components.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of RochesterBachelor's Degree, Optical and Electronic Information, Bachelor's Degree, Optical and Electronic Information at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (24)
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3d-reconstruction10
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pytorch9
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lzhang57/lzhang57.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 132 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
lzhang57/LeetCodeNotes
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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