Summary
Yuntong Zhang is an AI researcher and CS PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore with a decade of hands-on experience building production-ready systems and research prototypes. He co-founded AutoCodeRover—an AI startup later acquired by Sonar—and now contributes to Sonar’s research efforts, bridging academic rigor with product-driven engineering. His background spans speech and dialogue systems, backend engineering, and scalable monitoring platforms, reflecting work from A*STAR ASR improvements to Prometheus-based observability at Sea. As a former teaching assistant for core CS courses, he combines strong fundamentals in algorithms and systems with practical deployment skills like Dockerization and microservices. Based in Singapore, he brings an uncommon blend of entrepreneurial leadership and deep research experience in applied machine learning.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
UTown College Programme, UTown College Programme at Residential College 4 (RC4)
NUS High School Diploma Major with Honors in Mathematics Physics and Chemistry, NUS High School Diploma Major with Honors in Mathematics Physics and Chemistry at NUS High School of Mathematics & Science
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese