Qizhen Zhang
Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolQizhen Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto with nine years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and industrial R&D in machine learning and systems. After completing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, he accumulated multiple research internships and a postdoctoral stint at Microsoft, where he worked on applied research projects and collaborated closely with industry teams. His career blends academic rigor with practical impact, evidenced by repeated placements at Microsoft and NEC that emphasize translational research. Based in Old Toronto, he focuses on topics that sit at the intersection of theory and deployable systems, often taking problems from prototype to production-informed insights. Colleagues note his knack for converting deep technical work into teachable narratives, making him effective in both mentorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Outside conventional academic metrics, he brings a product-minded perspective uncommon among junior faculty, gained from sustained industry immersion.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (10)
inet10
omnet10
large-scale8
machine-learning7
scale7
language-processing2
nlp2
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eniac/MimicNet
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Predicting network performance at scale
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 10 months
inetdata-center-networksnetwork-performancemachine-learningscale
eniac/TELEPORT
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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