Yi Zhou
Tech Director at Tampere University
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Zhou is a tech director and machine learning expert with a decade of experience building production-ready AI across anomaly detection, time-series and text classification, deep multitask and few-shot learning, and computer vision systems like object detection and face similarity. Currently based in Beijing, he bridges applied research and industry as a PhD student at Tampere University while leading AI product and R&D—recently stepping into a Tech Director role at a metalwork company after headlining AI teams in robotics and generative VR game projects. He has a strong academic foundation and hands-on track record spanning research roles, industry labs, and startup-like teams, enabling fast prototyping and deployment of complex models. Notably, his background combines academic rigor from Tampere with practical product leadership across CAD, robotics, and games, making him adept at translating novel ML methods into commercial value.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Sichuan UniversityExchange student, Exchange student at University of Tampere 1925-2018Master’s Degree software development, Master’s Degree software development at Tampere University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
131reputation
10kreached
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Github Skills (4)
git6
github6
gitlab6
java2
Github contributions (5)
yipersevere/self_study
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
yipersevere/age-estimation
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:141 commits in 10 months
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