Xi Zhu
Piscataway Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolXi Zhu is a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Rutgers University with seven years of industry and research experience in graph machine learning, recommender systems, and large language models. She has applied advanced techniques like LLM fine-tuning and model distillation in production during an Applied Scientist internship at Amazon and developed state-of-the-art recommendation models for Taobao and Tmall as a Research Intern at Alibaba. Currently at TikTok, she bridges cutting-edge research and production engineering, focusing on scalable recommendation and agent-driven systems. Trained at USTC and Sichuan University, she combines strong theoretical grounding with hands-on experience shipping real-world ML systems across top tech platforms. An understated strength is her fluency in moving models from research prototypes to production-ready, compatibility-focused solutions.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Sichuan UniversityMaster of Engineering, Computer Science, Master of Engineering, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
simplification3
database-access2
graph2
rust-lang1
pytorch1
python1
graph-convolutional-networks1
system-programming1
mysql1
database1
garbage-collection1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
waitzxzx/PAT-PTA
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
xizhu1022/xizhu1022.github.io
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
AcadHomepage: A Modern and Responsive Academic Personal Homepage
Contributions:19 pushes in 4 months
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