Youcai Zhang

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok

Shanghai, China
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Youcai Zhang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Shanghai with 8 years of experience specializing in vision-language learning and visual semantic understanding. He has driven multi-modal content understanding at TikTok, including live-stream scenarios, and previously built image tagging, captioning, and face-recognition systems at OPPO and MEGVII. Trained at Fudan University in electronic information science and technology, he blends solid academic grounding with hands-on production work across research and engineering. Youcai’s background shows a consistent focus on bringing research-grade vision-language models into scalable products, and he often bridges model innovation with pragmatic knowledge distillation and deployment strategies. Notably, his career progression reflects repeated impact in high-throughput mobile and social media environments where latency and accuracy both matter.
code7 years of coding experience
job5 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster's degree, 电子信息科学与技术, Master's degree, 电子信息科学与技术 at 复旦大学
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Github Skills (2)

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Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

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Code for the Recognize Anything Model and Tag2Text Model
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 days
Coler1994/robust-loss-mlml

Dec 2021 - Dec 2021

Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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Youcai Zhang - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok