Summary
Linchuan Zhang is a Visiting Scholar and multidisciplinary technologist in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building software, data pipelines, and research programs that address long-term risks to humanity. He combines a background in economics, mathematics, and programming—having shipped ML data infrastructure at Google and served in multiple research and management roles at Rethink Priorities—with hands-on Java development skills. Linchuan has bridged research and operations as a grantmaker at EA Funds and briefly founded a mission-driven startup, Open Asteroid Impact, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive toward global-scale problems. He is comfortable translating rigorous analysis into pragmatic engineering solutions and has a track record of designing monitoring and production-ready systems that keep complex models and services reliable.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Mathematics, International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Mathematics, International Relations at Cornell College
Signal Data Science