Summary
Zhili Wang is an independent consultant specializing in applied NLP and AI systems, with nine years of experience building production-ready language solutions and ML pipelines from California. He has led semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent LLM pipelines for a stealth AI startup and drove NLP, graph neural network, and language modeling work at Vector Space Biosciences. His background spans research-grade ML for geospatial vision and secure computation at Northwestern to large-scale opinion mining for HSBC, giving him fluency in both academic research and enterprise deployment. Comfortable with data engineering and dynamic preprocessing, he focuses on turning ambiguous user requests into robust, semantically-driven solutions. Notably, he blends financial analytics experience and automation skills from earlier roles with deep NLP expertise, enabling pragmatically engineered systems that bridge domain knowledge and language models. Colleagues describe him as community-minded and determined—where there's a will, there's a way.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical Statistics and Probabilities, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical Statistics and Probabilities at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese, Chinese