Mingzhou Zhou
Staff Software Engineer Applied Researcher at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolMingzhou Zhou is a Staff Software Engineer and Applied Researcher at LinkedIn with 14 years of experience building large-scale, foundational machine learning systems and autonomous ML infrastructure. Based in Mountain View, he has advanced from research roles through senior engineering positions to lead applied research efforts that operationalize ML at internet scale. His background includes cloud infrastructure work at IBM Cloud Lab and academic research from a PhD in Computer Science at William & Mary and an Automation degree from Tsinghua, giving him a strong blend of theory and production engineering. Known for turning complex research into reliable production services, he focuses on scalability, robustness, and autonomous model lifecycle management. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who balances experimental exploration with measurable impact in production. An intriguing detail: despite a heavy production focus, he maintains a succinct GitHub footprint ("42") suggesting selective, high-impact contributions rather than broad public output.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at The College of William and MaryBachelor's degree, Automation, Bachelor's degree, Automation at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (71)
prefixes10
right-to-left10
realms10
javascript10
tooltips10
inline-styles10
info-card10
readable10
translation10
mixins10
vue10
styles10
css10
chrome-extension10
plugin10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
guokr/guokr
Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 9 months
0067ED/third.js
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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