Wei Zou
Principal Data Scientist
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Zou is a Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft with over nine years of industry experience and a two-decade career in data mining and analytics rooted in a Ph.D. from Peking University. At Microsoft he progressed from SDET and software engineering roles in SQL Server/Power BI to senior data science and principal-level leadership on Azure, blending product-focused engineering with advanced analytics. He specializes in scalable data platforms, applied machine learning, and turning research-grade algorithms into production services for cloud customers. His background includes postdoctoral research at UIUC, signaling a strong bridge between academic rigor and enterprise delivery. Colleagues rely on him for deep domain knowledge in BI and data mining and for pragmatic solutions that move models from prototype to Azure-scale deployments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Peking University
Github Skills (18)
speech-synthesis10
bloom10
unsupervised-learning10
asr10
ctc10
instruction-set10
lora10
sequence-to-sequence10
speech-processing9
llama9
speaker-recognition9
tensorflow9
speech-recognition8
transformer8
large-language-models8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LianjiaTech/BELLE
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
BELLE: Be Everyone's Large Language model Engine（开源中文对话大模型）
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
large-language-modelsbloominstruction-setllamaopen-models
athena-team/athena
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
an open-source implementation of sequence-to-sequence based speech processing engine
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
sequence-to-sequencespeech-processingspeech-recognitionasrtransformer
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