Zhe Zhao
Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhe Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at UC Davis and a former staff research scientist at Google Brain/DeepMind with 12 years of experience advancing deep learning, multi-task learning, ML efficiency, and robustness. His work translated research into production impact across Google products like YouTube, Play, and News, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical depth from a PhD at the University of Michigan and practical product-focused engineering. Trained at Peking University and mentored by prominent advisors, he repeatedly bridges core ML research with real-world recommendation, NLP, and vision applications. Known for chasing frontier technologies that can change the world, he combines academic rigor with industry-scale deployment experience and a track record of influencing recommendation systems at scale.
12 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 University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
ai8
google8
machine-learning8
react2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhezhao/rumor_detection
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 1 year
zhezhao/detection
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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