Yimeng Zhang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYimeng Zhang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Lead based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience bridging AI research and production systems. With a PhD and MS from Carnegie Mellon and top-ranked undergraduate training from Zhejiang University, he combines deep theoretical knowledge in ML/CV with hands-on engineering—recently leading knowledge graph, Pin-understanding signals, and unified signal evaluation pipeline efforts at Pinterest. His background includes computational neuroscience research and infrastructure work, giving him a pragmatic edge in translating complex models into dependable systems. Known for balancing rigor and practicality, he focuses on making advanced AI technologies accessible to businesses while retaining strong roots in research-grade methodology. An engineer comfortable across research, tooling, and devops, he often surfaces non-obvious trade-offs between model fidelity and deployability when architecting solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Research, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Research at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.95/4.0 (92.7/100); rank: 1/180, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.95/4.0 (92.7/100); rank: 1/180 at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (143)
python10
expressions10
data-manipulation10
automation10
deep-learning10
gpu10
scientific-computing10
ssh10
nvidia-docker10
caffe10
dataframes10
pandas10
statistics10
ansible10
neural-network10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
leelabcnbc/tang_jcompneuro_revision
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 106 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
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