Zhifan Sang
Research Engineer at Luma AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhifan Sang is a research engineer in the Bay Area with nine years of experience building large-scale data systems, search, and machine learning models across companies from Facebook to Apple and now Luma AI. He combines strong engineering skills in Go, Python, Java, and C++ with practical ML and deep learning experience (TensorFlow, Spark) to ship multimodal image search and visual intelligence features at production scale. His background in biostatistics and academic research informs rigorous experimentation—he has implemented parallel MCMC algorithms and built widely used R packages—while his industry work spans ETL, forecasting, OCR-powered mobile search, and foundation model engineering. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has a track record of improving model accuracy via human evaluation and deploying systems that process terabytes of data. Colleagues describe him as analytically driven and curious, with a knack for turning statistical methods into robust, user-facing products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree Statistics at Nankai UniversityFront-End Web Developer Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer Product Manager Nanodegree Computer Science, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer Product Manager Nanodegree Computer Science at UdacityMaster’s Degree Biostatistics, Master’s Degree Biostatistics at Emory UniversityVisiting student ARCHE program Computer Science, Visiting student ARCHE program Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyData Science Immersive Data Science, Data Science Immersive Data Science at Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMa
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
apache3
spark3
big-data2
apache-flink1
Github contributions (5)
zfsang-zz/CharacterGo
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:17 commits in 1 month
zfsang/CarND-Self-Driving-ROS
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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