Zheng Zhang
Research Assistant at Northwestern University Computer Science Department
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZheng Zhang is a 5th-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University with eight years of experience spanning research, bioinformatics, and big data systems. His work bridges databases and large language models, and he has a strong background in adversarial ML from research stints at Penn State and a publication on attacking/defending language models. He has hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines with Spark/HDFS and developing PyTorch-based adversarial deep learning tooling. Zheng has also interned at Adobe as a research scientist and contributed to large-scale genomics data projects, showing an unusual blend of ML research and practical data engineering. Based in Chicago, he combines rigorous academic training in statistics with applied systems work to move research prototypes toward robust, production-ready experiments.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Statistics at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
extraction10
adversarial-attacks9
classification9
posters9
adversarial-machine-learning9
collage9
robustness8
stat8
pytorch8
image-classification8
toolbox8
artificial-intelligence7
security7
photo7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SecantZhang/algorithms_implementation
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
SecantZhang/Lintcode_Challenges
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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