Summary
Xianzhe Zhang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade AI and mobile systems, currently improving visual search and on-device computer vision at Google Lens in Mountain View. He combines a strong research background from Stanford and SAIL with hands-on product engineering across startups and large companies, having shipped performance and UX improvements for Android apps used by millions. His work spans ML model development, evaluation systems, and practical optimization of launch time, memory, and video quality, reflecting a rare blend of research rigor and shipping discipline. An early AI resident at X and former NLP researcher at Tencent, he brings cross-domain expertise in NLP, 3D reconstruction, and deep learning for real-world products. Notably, he leverages academic teaching experience (CS224N course assistant) to translate cutting-edge research into scalable on-device solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English