Yizhe Zhang
Staff Research Scientist at Apple
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYizhe Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist at Apple MLR with 11 years of experience advancing NLP and ML, currently based in Redmond, Washington. He has led fundamental research in code understanding and generation and has a strong track record from research roles at Facebook AI and Microsoft Research where he worked on neural conversational agents and large-scale natural language generation. His PhD work bridged machine learning and computational biology, and he holds a master’s in statistics from Duke, reflecting a rigorous quantitative foundation. An active contributor to open-source research tooling, he worked on training and preprocessing pipelines for Microsoft’s DialoGPT, demonstrating hands-on ML engineering alongside research. Colleagues know him for combining deep theoretical insight with production-minded implementations that improve model diversity and deployment. He brings a rare mix of academic depth and practical system-building that accelerates applied language-model innovations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics & Physics (Kuangyamin honored college), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics & Physics (Kuangyamin honored college) at Nanjing Universitymiddle school
Github Skills (6)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
gpt10
python10
data-processing9
transformer9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/DialoGPT
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Large-scale pretraining for dialogue
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 review, 57 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Yizhe contributed to the training and preprocessing pipelines for the Dialogpt model, including the creation of the `LSP_train.py` training script, and `prepro.py` for preprocessing the data. They also made modifications to the codebase, including updates to the `gradiodemo.py` script for demonstration purposes. These contributions suggest involvement in model training and overall project deployment and maintenance.
dialogue-systemsnatural-language-processingdialogptlanguage-modellarge-scale
dreasysnail/dreasysnail.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jul 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:77 pushes in 4 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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