Xiong Zhang
Research Scientist at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiong Zhang is a research scientist in Seattle with 14 years of experience building ML-driven systems and developer-facing libraries, currently contributing to data pre-processing tooling on the PyTorch team at Meta. His background blends deep academic research—a Ph.D. from University of Rochester on contextualized exploratory programming—with hands-on product prototyping across Microsoft, Snap, Megagon Labs, and Facebook, where he worked on impression logging and scalable dataset exploration. Xiong has a strong foundation in speech and handwriting recognition using deep learning and sequence models, and he has repeatedly turned research prototypes into practical systems for large-scale use. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he focuses on making complex data pipelines and developer workflows more robust and efficient.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of RochesterBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (58)
pytorch10
preprocessing10
python10
machine-learning10
use-case10
data-management10
pythonic10
data-preprocessing10
deep-learning10
api10
gpu10
breadboard10
sql-like10
transformation10
imperative10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bearzx/DS.js
Nov 2016 - Jun 2020
Turn any webpage into a data science programming environment.
Contributions:133 commits, 2 PRs, 147 pushes in 3 years 8 months
pythonscienceprogramming-environmentdata-sciencemachine-learning
bearzx/Mallard
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Machine learning lightweight breadboard
Contributions:120 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
breadboardmachine-learning
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