Yang Zou
Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Zou is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI with nine years of experience building multi-modal foundation models, large language models, and agentic AI systems at billion-scale data regimes. He was a core contributor to Amazon Nova, Nova Canvas, and the Titan Image Generator, bridging research and product delivery for production-grade multi-modal capabilities. A CMU PhD, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering from internships at NVIDIA and GM to ship large-scale ML systems. Yang’s work focuses on data-centric AI and scalable model engineering, and he maintains an active research presence with publications and a public portfolio showcasing reproducible models and experiments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (83)
surface10
clustering9
clip9
knn9
julia8
paper8
portable8
mxnet8
multiview8
nearest-neighbors8
similarity8
mutation8
arxiv8
image-segmentation8
dataflow7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yzou2/CRST
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
yzou2/CBST
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 26 pushes, 26 comments in 1 year 1 month
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