Yilin Zhang
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYilin Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience bridging statistics and large-language-model research. At Meta she leads GenAI Evaluation and Ground Truth Maturity frameworks and co-authored the Llama 3 paper, reflecting deep involvement in productionizing cutting‑edge LLMs. Her work spans LLM labeling, auto-prompt optimization, prompt understanding, fine-tuning, and building AI agents such as analytics and design agents. Trained as a PhD statistician from University of Wisconsin–Madison with a math-and-statistics undergraduate background from USTC, she blends rigorous quantitative methods with practical ML engineering. Colleagues rely on her to translate challenging evaluation problems into scalable frameworks that improve model reliability in real-world systems. An often-overlooked strength is her cross-disciplinary collaboration history, from gravitational-wave research to industry-scale applied science, which fuels a broad, inventive approach to AI problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S. Mathematics and Statistics, B.S. Mathematics and Statistics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
genetic-algorithm9
self-organizing-map8
classification8
clustering8
regression8
wavelet8
orange8
mathematica8
statistical-learning8
dimensionality-reduction7
manifold7
statistics7
naive-bayes7
nlp7
computer-vision6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yzhang672/AOAS
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
yzhang672/pairGraphText
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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