Jiyang Zhang
Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWuyang Zhang is a research faculty and seasoned ML systems scientist with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry, most recently at Meta’s Ads ML group and now at the University of Science and Technology of China. He holds a Ph.D. from WINLAB, Rutgers, and focuses on distributed machine learning systems, edge computing, and recommender systems, bringing deep research rigor to production-scale problems. At Meta he progressed from Research Scientist to Staff Research Scientist, contributing to large-scale ad-serving ML infrastructure and applied research. A recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Phoenix ISS Award, he blends theoretical insight with practical system-building and has international research experience including visiting work at The University of Tokyo. His background spans diverse internships (ByteDance, Samsung) and cross-cultural education in France and China, reflecting an ability to operate effectively across global research and engineering teams. Notably, he combines low-level distributed-systems expertise with recommender-system modeling—an uncommon hybrid that accelerates research-to-production impact.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Nankai UniversityMaster's degree, Biotechnology, Master's degree, Biotechnology at Northwestern University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
autograd9
neural-network9
keras9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
object-detection8
tensorflow7
python-bindings6
mask-rcnn6
instance-segmentation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wuyangzhang/elf
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
wuyangzhang/ECE544-CommunicationNetworkII
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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