Summary
You Zhang is a Senior Researcher specializing in spatial audio and multimodal AI with eight years of research experience spanning industry labs and academia. Currently at Dolby and a PhD candidate at the University of Rochester's Audio Information Research Lab, they fuse deep audio signal processing with modern machine learning to advance immersive listening experiences. Their background includes research internships at Meta Reality Labs, Microsoft Applied Sciences, Tencent, ByteDance and Momenta, giving them practical exposure to large-scale applied research and cross-disciplinary product contexts. Skilled at bridging prototype research and application, they have worked on projects ranging from spatialization and speech/audio intelligence to perception-driven audio systems. Based in Atlanta, they bring a global technical upbringing (USTC and UC Berkeley exchange) and a pattern of contributing to both academic and industrial innovations. Colleagues describe them as someone who pairs rigorous experimentation with a knack for translating perceptual insights into deployable models.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Exchange Studies, Exchange Studies at University of California, Berkeley
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Ph.D. Student, Ph.D. Student at University of Rochester
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China