Yuanhao Zhang
Senior Staff Data Scientist
Newark, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuanhao Zhang is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with eight years of experience building and validating recommendation and ranking systems at Meta, bringing a strong statistical research background from a PhD in Statistics and prior bioinformatics and applied statistics roles. He specializes in turning massive, messy datasets into actionable stories that drive product growth, prototyping foundational models to convince leadership to invest in new recommendation surfaces. His early career in academia produced novel statistical methods and high-impact bioinformatics papers, reflecting deep expertise in experimental design, NGS analysis, and rigorous model validation. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, mentoring researchers, and shipping production analytics, he blends research-grade rigor with product-focused deployment. Based in Newark, California, he combines the curiosity of a research scientist with the scale and impact orientation of a senior industry practitioner.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at State University of New York at Stony BrookBS, Statistics, BS, Statistics at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
x3d10
pytorch10
benchmark10
python10
toolbox10
re-identification10
openmmlab10
diffusion-models10
machine-learning10
stable-diffusion10
diffusers10
video-understanding10
numpy10
text2image10
ava10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yhZhai/dotfiles
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
yhZhai/MoonShadowsss.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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