Zhecan Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCLA Computer Science
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhecan Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA with 11 years of applied ML and multimedia research experience, holding a PhD from Columbia and a BS from Olin College. He combines academic rigor—9 US patents and publications in top conferences—with industry impact from roles at Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and an autonomous driving startup. His work spans computer vision, NLP and robotics, highlighted by a first-place win at MS-Celeb-1M hosted by MSRA and collaborations across DeepMind/MSR while still a student. Comfortable moving ideas from prototypes to deployed systems, he brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, patent-level innovation, and cross-institutional research leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringExchange, Exchange at National University of SingaporeCross Registration, Cross Registration at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCross Registration, Cross Registration at Wellesley CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Danish, Chinese
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Github Skills (27)
android-app7
kotlin6
android5
thesaurus4
django3
react3
web-application3
immigration3
semantics3
lda2
record-linkage2
similarity2
graph2
scene-graph2
dbpedia2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ZhecanJamesWang/EyeHelper_MobPro
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
devandroidandroid-appkotlineye
fourJs/FaceLook
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:239 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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