Tianjun Zhong
Research Assistant at Columbia University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianjun Zhong is an M.S. Computer Science student at Columbia University specializing in machine learning, with 11 years of experience applying AI in research and industry settings. He has built large-scale LLM post-training workflows and engineered retrieval-augmented generation systems, creating original algorithms and FAISS databases from over 1.27 million tokens of scraped text. His background blends a dual Emory degree in Computer Science and Business Administration with hands-on roles at UC San Diego, Tencent, and a startup, reflecting both research rigor and product-focused engineering. At TripleE Group he improved retrieval accuracy and mitigated hallucinations through multi-granularity RAG and embedding clustering—an indicator of practical expertise in aligning models with noisy real-world data. He has teaching experience mentoring over a hundred students in Python and SQL, underscoring clear technical communication skills. Curious and methodical, he often combines novel data extraction techniques with scalable ML pipelines to turn messy corpora into reliable knowledge sources.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration at Emory University - Goizueta Business SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Emory UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science Machine Learning, Master of Science in Computer Science Machine Learning at Columbia University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
team-project7
plt4
flutter3
firebase3
javascript1
mobile-web1
nodejs1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tczhong/pandas
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:2 pushes in 28 days
chickenPopcorn/food-truck-inc
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
food truck inc. - an application for mobile food vending
Contributions:16 PRs, 50 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
firebasefoodfood-trucktruckflutter
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