Weinan Zhang
Associate Professor
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWeinan Zhang is a tenure-track associate professor of computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University with 12 years of experience applying deep learning and reinforcement learning to large-scale, real-world data mining problems such as computational advertising, recommender systems, text mining, web search and knowledge graphs. He earned his PhD from UCL in 2016 and has industry research experience from internships and consultancies at MediaGamma, Microsoft, Google and DERI, bridging academic rigor with production-facing ML systems. His work emphasizes practical optimization for real-time bidding and recommender platforms, reflecting a consistent focus on translating research into deployable solutions. Based in Shanghai’s Minhang District, he maintains an active academic lab and online presence (wnzhang.net), and brings a rare mix of deep theoretical training and hands-on industry engineering in personalization and ad-tech.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Technology, BS, Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University College London, U. of London
English, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
text-generation10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
multi-agent10
survey10
advertising10
real-time-bidding10
reinforcement-learning9
mahjong9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
q-learning8
multiagent-systems8
deep-learning8
agent8
generative8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shuaiyuancn/data-computational-advertising.github.io
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
wnzhang/deep-ctr
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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