Xu Zhong
Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolXu Zhong is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist based in Melbourne with eight years of experience applying deep learning, NLP, and document analytics to production products. He has progressed from research roles at IBM Research Australia and The University of Melbourne to principal data science and applied science leadership at Oracle, where he builds capabilities for Oracle Digital Assistant and Oracle Cognitive API. His background combines a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with hands-on experience shipping AI features in large enterprise contexts, bridging research rigor and product delivery. Xu is comfortable moving models from prototype to production and unusually for his role maintains a strong research lineage that informs practical system design. He has a track record of mentoring cross-functional teams and translating complex language and document problems into scalable services.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Physics, Physical Electronics, Bachelor of Applied Physics, Physical Electronics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Melbourne
English, Chinese
Github Skills (54)
python8
keras8
machine-learning8
ui-components8
get-started8
data-science7
falcon7
deep-learning7
data-analysis7
data-visualization7
nlp7
object-detection6
agent6
mask6
segmentation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-aur-nlp/PubLayNet
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 3 months
ibm-aur-nlp/domain-specific-QA
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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