Linghao Zhang
Staff Research Engineer, Gemini Personalization
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinghao Zhang is a Staff Research Engineer based in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building generative AI systems and production-grade ML infrastructure. He currently leads personalization efforts for Gemini at Google DeepMind, driving end-to-end improvements from post-training and synthetic data creation to retrieval, ranking, and summarization to make assistants genuinely useful. Previously he led full-stack GenAI work at Google—spanning application-layer agents, inference throughput optimizations, and model tuning (SFT, RL, preference optimization)—and helped architect Looker Studio’s backend and federated query engine. Comfortable moving between research and production, he combines deep academic training (CMU, Fudan) with pragmatic engineering, and a background in GPU-accelerated ML systems from an NVIDIA research internship. Colleagues describe him as focused on measurable quality gains and preserving authenticity in AI-driven experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program Computer Science, Exchange Program Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Fudan UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySummer Program Design Thinking, Summer Program Design Thinking at Stanford University
Chinese, English, Japanese, shaoxinese
Github Skills (85)
python10
mdx-js10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
nltk10
machine-learning10
static-blog9
jupyter9
kaggle9
sframe9
jupyter-notebook9
google-chrome8
valgrind8
letter8
igraph8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AdvEx/AdvEx
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 2 issues in 2 months
dnc1994/Kaggle-Playground
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Jupyter notebooks and code examples for my Kaggle Beginners' Guide.
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
kagglepythondata-sciencejupyter-notebookmachine-learning
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