Mingyang Zhou
Applied Reseacher I at Capital One
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingyang Zhou is an applied researcher based in New York with 11 years of experience focused on multimodal learning, particularly vision-and-language pretraining, financial LLMs, and chart/figure understanding. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis and completed a postdoc at Columbia working on cutting-edge multimodal and multilingual tasks. Mingyang has industrial research experience from Capital One, Facebook, and Microsoft internships, blending production-oriented problem solving with strong academic rigor. His work spans visual dialogue, multimodal translation, and dataset building—highlighted by EMNLP publications and a role on the winning 2018 Alexa Chatbot team—showing a knack for translating research into practical systems. Notably, he moves fluidly between deep technical development and applied research in finance-facing language models, making him adept at bridging research and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Penn State UniversityDeep Learning Foundation Nano Degree Deep Learning, Deep Learning Foundation Nano Degree Deep Learning at UdacityHigh school graduate certification Science, High school graduate certification Science at Chendu foreign Languages SchoolMaster's Degree Computer Vision & Robotics, Master's Degree Computer Vision & Robotics at University of MichiganPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese
Github Skills (56)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
caffe9
seq2seq9
optical-flow9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zmykevin/A-Visual-Attention-Grounding-Neural-Model
May 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
zmykevin/UVLP
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 2 pushes, 7 comments in 7 days
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