Zaid Khan
Research Assistant (Artificial Intelligence) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZaid Khan is an AI researcher and engineer focused on building grounded, multimodal language agents that use reinforcement learning from interactive feedback to solve real-world reasoning tasks. With 11 years of experience spanning industry and academia, he has driven research on self-training, program synthesis, and agentic LLM orchestration at NEC Labs and is now a PhD student and research assistant at UNC Chapel Hill working with Mohit Bansal. His work blends computer vision, neural program synthesis, and practical systems engineering—publishing first-author papers at CVPR, ECCV, and NeurIPS while also delivering production data and event-driven systems in prior roles. He has a track record of translating research into demos and demos-in-progress (paper submitted, demo forthcoming) and combines deep experimental rigor with hands-on deployment experience across cloud and embedded stacks. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings a rare mix of academic publication impact and operational engineering across ML-driven perception and agent development.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Haynes Academy School for Advanced Studies
English
Github Skills (40)
shell10
multimodal-deep-learning9
python9
vision-framework9
vision-and-language9
salesforce9
cuda9
gpt8
inference8
amd8
pytorch8
tpu7
llm7
llama7
mlops7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codezakh/SIMLA
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
codezakh/memedex
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:90 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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