Zheng Yuan
Associate Professor
Beijing, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZheng Yuan is an Associate Professor and NLP researcher with a PhD from Cambridge and eight years of research and industry experience focused on alignment, reasoning, and medical applications of language models. He has held academic positions at Cambridge, King’s College London and now the University of Sheffield, while also serving as VP of Data Science in industry, giving him a strong bridge between cutting-edge research and product-facing ML. His work includes contributions linked to the THU Center of Statistical Science and experience on projects like Qwen, reflecting hands-on model development and large-model alignment. Zheng’s background in telecommunications engineering and advanced computer science underpins a rigorous, systems-oriented approach to NLP problems. He frequently collaborates across institutions as a visiting researcher, signaling both academic leadership and broad collaborative networks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who turns theoretical insight into medically relevant, deployable NLP solutions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Natural Language Processing at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, First Class Honours at Queen Mary, U. of London
Chinese, English
Github Skills (160)
transformers10
blast10
language-model10
python10
generative10
deep-learning10
gpu10
compression10
medical10
optimization10
in-progress10
mahjong10
knowledge-graph10
transformer10
nlp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GanjinZero/wana
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
GanjinZero/ChineseEHRBert
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
A Chinese EHR Bert Pretrained Model.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
nlpchinesebertpretrained-modelehr
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