Terence L
Head Of ML Principal Engineer at Clearview AI
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTerence L is a Head of ML and Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, cost-efficient machine learning systems from research prototypes to production. Based in Madison, WI, he led the creation of a facial recognition algorithm ranked US #1 and World #2 by NIST and engineered a deca-B vector database achieving 100+x state-of-the-art throughput, yielding dramatic near-term server cost reductions and multi-million-dollar long-term savings. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and people leader, he has balanced hands-on systems work—C++ library fusion with Python bindings, distributed training orchestration, model distillation/quantization/pruning, and encrypted serving—with cross-functional product and GTM efforts. Earlier roles at Bloomberg and in academic research (PhD in Physics) underpin his expertise in large-scale infrastructure, parallel computing, and reproducible open-source tooling for scientific workflows. He combines deep algorithmic rigor with pragmatic engineering that drives measurable cost and performance wins.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at The University of Toledo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (108)
mozjpeg10
image-processing10
nearest-neighbors10
quantile10
clustering10
face10
stream10
face-recognition10
computer-vision10
dlib10
face-detection10
re-identification10
similarity10
webhdfs10
large-files9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
terencezl/ScriptsForVASP
May 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:199 commits in 1 year 7 months
preparationpythonscriptingsimulationbash
terencezl/pydass_vasp
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:98 commits, 30 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 9 months
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