Zheng-xin Yong
Astra Research Fellow at OpenAI
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolZheng-xin Yong is an Astra Research Fellow at OpenAI and a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Brown University with nine years of hands-on experience in ML, deep learning, and multilingual NLP. He has driven research and safety work across top labs—Meta FAIR, Cohere, Hugging Face and OpenAI—focusing on multilingual model robustness, safety red‑teaming, and extending large models to low-resource languages. Equally comfortable in research and product settings, he has led data collection and prompt curation for Malay LLMs, scaled compute-aware multilingual modeling (BLOOM+1), and shipped applied ML solutions from satellite imagery to production NLP systems. A pragmatic open-source enthusiast fluent in PyTorch/TensorFlow, cloud platforms, and full-stack tooling, he blends academic rigor with business insight from a BS in CS and a Business minor. Notably, his work emphasizes scaling reasoning compute and practical strategies for deploying safe, accent-robust and multilingual models.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Major) and Business (Minor), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Major) and Business (Minor) at Minerva UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Brown UniversityCambridge A Level, Cambridge A Level at Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL)
Malay, English, Chinese
Github Skills (164)
structures10
language-model10
python10
leaderboard10
scrapy10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
gpu10
phonetics10
crawler10
lora10
acl10
prompt-tuning10
codecov10
transformer10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bigscience-workshop/multilingual-modeling
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
BLOOM+1: Adapting BLOOM model to support a new unseen language
Contributions:7 reviews, 171 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 3 months
yongzx/PaletteNet-PyTorch
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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