Yimeng Zhang
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorYimeng 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
Github Skills (99)
python10
automation10
deep-learning10
docker-container10
gpu10
ssh10
nvidia-docker10
caffe10
pandas10
statistics10
ansible10
data-science10
data-structure10
tensorflow10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
leelabcnbc/book-notes
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
a bunch of notes about machine learning, image statistics, theoretical neuroscience, etc.
Contributions:56 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
machine-learningstatisticsnotes
leelabcnbc/tang_jcompneuro_revision
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 106 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
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