Zhen-huan Yang
Applied Scientist II at Amazon Lab126
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZhen-huan Yang is an Applied Scientist II with a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics and nine years of industry experience building search, NLP, and large-model systems. He has led production search science and conversational search efforts at Amazon and engineered retrieval and ranking pipelines and LLM in-context solutions at Etsy, plus work on text-to-video and recommendation fairness research published at WWW. His recent focus is on efficient LLMs, VLMs and omni-models for edge AI—optimizing distillation- and quantization-aware pretraining and post-training for instruction following, reasoning, and embodied agents. Comfortable spanning theory and production, he combines deep math-driven research in optimization and deep learning theory with hands-on system design for FAISS-backed retrieval, cross-encoder ranking, and LLM-powered buyer experiences. Based in New York, he also explores RL, vision-language models, and quantized deployments, bringing uncommon breadth across model theory, efficiency, and product-facing ML.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics at University at AlbanyBS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, BS, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
4kreached
0answers
6questions
Github Skills (14)
ruler7
grid-layout6
pandas6
generative6
pyqt6
bash6
triangular6
python6
jekyll6
numpy6
jekyll-theme6
inequality4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhenhuan-yang/minimax-stability
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 39 pushes in 2 months
zhenhuan-yang/general-loss-AUC
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 99 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.