Yiyang Zhao
Research Scientist at Meta
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiyang Zhao is a research scientist in Boston with a decade of experience advancing machine learning, computer vision, and large language models, now working at Meta on foundation-model research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has a strong publication record at top venues (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, JMLR) with over 700 citations, reflecting influence across both theory and applied systems. His expertise in Neural Architecture Search has produced state-of-the-art deep learning models for diverse AI tasks, and he has applied that knowledge during internships at NVIDIA and TikTok. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research with practical engineering—optimizing model design while keeping deployment and scalability in mind.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Information Engineering at Xidian University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
meta-learning4
architecture4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
imagenet3
neural-architecture-search2
pytorch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aoiang/LaMOO
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
aoiang/few-shot-NAS
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 17 pushes, 10 comments in 9 months
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