Yichen Zhu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolYichen Zhu is a machine learning engineer with eight years of experience building and evaluating production ML systems across top tech companies in the NYC area. He has driven ads ranking and model exploration at Meta, developed generative AI for ads at Google, and worked on applied ML platforms at Apple, combining research-minded rigor with product-focused execution. Passionate about post-training evaluation and end-to-end models, he emphasizes robust model validation and deployment readiness beyond initial training. Known for bridging quantitative thinking from his University of Chicago ML background with pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces subtle failure modes that improve long-term model reliability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lynbrook High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (specialization in Machine Learning), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (specialization in Machine Learning) at University of Chicago
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
anomaly-detection10
classification10
keras10
r7
gpu5
data-mining5
python5
residual-networks5
kaggle5
data-science4
cifar1004
machine-learning4
java4
cuda4
cpp3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xmoanvaf/awesome-anomaly-detection
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
A complete list of papers on anomaly detection.
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 4 months
anomaly-detection
zhuyiche/kpi-detection
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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