Lingxiao Zhang
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLingxiao Zhang is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading the AI transformation for content safety on WhatsApp at Meta. He combines production-grade ML engineering and technical leadership in integrity and content moderation, drawing on prior experience as a CTO and co-founder of an NLP-driven news aggregation startup in Beijing. With a PhD from Peking University focused on data mining of software repositories and clinical data, he bridges rigorous research with practical systems that scale. His background includes medical-data phenotyping and disease-relationship visualization projects, signaling a rare blend of ML for both safety and healthcare domains. Based in the UK, he is known for turning academic insights into robust product architectures and guiding teams through high-stakes, real-world AI deployments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (48)
bilstm10
wechaty9
search-engine9
java9
entity9
crf9
elasticsearch9
nlp8
whatsapp8
classification8
dependency-parsing8
restful8
parsing8
document-classification8
semantic-parsing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TSR-SEIPKU/Topical-PMAD
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
judaschrist/related_work_writer
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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