Yilun Zhang
Machine Learning Engineer at Mozilla
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYilun Zhang is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building and shipping ML and data science systems across startups and large organizations. Currently at Mozilla working on Firefox AI/ML and previously leading data science engineering at SoundHound, he blends hands-on modeling with production engineering and team-level leadership. His background includes applied research and product work in voice AI, fraud detection (Fakespot), and financial/bioinformatics co-op roles, supported by a Master’s in Statistics from the University of Waterloo. Comfortable moving models from prototype to scale, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance accuracy, latency, and maintainability. Outside of work he surfaces most detail on a personal site rather than social profiles, suggesting a focus on substantive contributions over online signaling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Statistics, Master’s Degree, Statistics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
transformers10
language-model10
parallel10
python10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
datasets10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
speech10
automl10
fairness-ml10
cython10
lora10
ray10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhangyilun/capital-one-data-mining-cup-2015
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
zhangyilun/R_package_download_study
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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