Zhaoyi Hou
Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaoyi Hou is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh and an applied scientist focused on advancing NLP and commonsense reasoning through practical, benchmark-driven research. With eight years of experience across academic labs and industry, they built a RAG QA pipeline that notably improved USMLE accuracy and now work on Amazon's ML stack leveraging AWS SageMaker and production-focused tooling. Their background blends data science training from UPenn and UCSD with hands-on projects—ranging from transformer-based patent prediction and clinical image pipelines to large-scale ETL for behavioral text analysis—demonstrating both research rigor and production engineering. Known for distilling large models into usable systems (e.g., knowledge distillation from GPT-3) and shipping measurable gains, Zhaoyi pairs deep modeling expertise with practical data engineering to push NLP toward real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Guangzhou Zhixin High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and InformationMaster of Science in Engineering (MSE) Data Science, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Data Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
api7
macos-big-sur7
apple-silicon6
rosetta5
macos-application5
compatibility5
wechat5
mac-app-store4
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silicon4
wwdc3
macos3
bioinformatics3
python2
genomics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoeyHou/JoeyHou.github.io
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
JoeyHou/joeyhou.github.io
Feb 2021 - May 2022
A minimalist, responsive portfolio theme for Jekyll with Bootstrap
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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