Mozhi Zhang is an AI engineer and PhD candidate at the University of Maryland with 13 years of experience building research-driven ML systems and production AI products. She has led LLM training from scratch and shipped conversational and domain-specific products at MiniMax, followed by RL and synthetic data research, and currently works on applied AI at Alva. Her background includes internships at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook where she focused on LLM reply suggestion, citation deduplication, and feed infrastructure—skills that bridge research and large-scale engineering. Mozhi publishes academic work (see Google Scholar) while also contributing practical ML engineering expertise, making her equally at home prototyping novel models and deploying them in product contexts. An underappreciated strength is her track record of taking research ideas through full-stack implementation into user-facing AI features.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Maryland
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