Susan Zhang
Principal Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Zhang is a Principal Research Engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience designing distributed systems and large-scale ML compute infrastructure for reinforcement learning, language, and image modeling. She has led research engineering across top AI labs including DeepMind, Meta, and OpenAI, and brings deep production experience integrating massive models like OPT-175B into scalable pipelines. Her work blends low-level systems engineering with applied ML — from data and training pipelines to resharding and model packaging — reflecting both research rigor and deployment-first instincts. An early background in quantitative roles and mathematics (Princeton) informs her analytical approach to architecture and performance tradeoffs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Research Science Institute, Research Science Institute at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Princeton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
continuous-deployment10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
trainings10
large-language-models10
python10
ml-deployment10
modeling10
natural-language-processing9
distributed-training9
nlp9
code-optimization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/metaseq
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Repo for external large-scale work
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:288 reviews, 108 commits, 254 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Susan primarily contributed to the `facebookresearch/metaseq` repository by developing and improving the model's functionality and performance. Their commits include implementing resharding scripts, downloading and preparing models (OPT-175B), adding vocab files, and cleaning up internal links, which collectively support large-scale work. The user's changes also involved integrating with other existing code like gpt2 merges, demonstrating an understanding of integrating various model components.
transformersdockerscalelarge-scalehuggingface
suchenzang/laptop-setup
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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