Wilson Zhao
Senior Research Engineer at Hume AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWilson Zhao is a Senior Research Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years building scalable ML and systems infrastructure across self-driving, planet-scale search, and empathic conversational AI. He’s currently developing text/audio foundation models for Hume AI after leading perception and continuous-learning efforts at Waymo to productionize long-tail model improvements. His background includes peta-scale indexing and telemetry search at Chronicle/Google and hands-on ML and product prototyping from X and other startups, reflecting a blend of research rigor and production engineering. A Carnegie Mellon alumnus, he also taught practical CS tooling to freshmen—an indicator of his knack for clear technical communication and developer productivity. Off hours he’s an enthusiast of “beep boop” music and productivity tools, suggesting a creative streak that informs his approach to tooling and model-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mission San Jose High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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0reached
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Github Skills (89)
microfrontend10
javascript10
typescript10
android10
expo-router10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
weex10
frontend10
react10
mbaas9
framework79
audio-effect9
audiounit9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wilzh40/SBSkeleton
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
expo/expo-starter-aws
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 1 push in 27 days
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