Zhitao Wang
Senior Researcher at WeChat Pay
Hong Kong, China
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZhitao Wang is a senior researcher at WeChat Pay and a fourth-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with about 10 years of industry and academic experience. He specializes in information diffusion, representation learning, recommendation systems, and social media user behavior modeling, bringing research rigor to large-scale product problems. At Tencent he progressed from research intern to senior researcher, applying data mining and diffusion modeling to payments and social platforms. His background includes teaching core computing courses and hands-on text mining and sentiment analysis from earlier research roles, giving him a rare blend of pedagogical clarity and production-oriented research. Based in Hong Kong, he bridges deep academic work with impactful applied research in one of the world’s largest consumer platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at 香港理工大学Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology at 西北工业大学
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
portable7
java7
gradient7
machine-learning7
scalable6
distributed-systems6
python6
scala6
xgboost6
spark6
embedding5
dataflow5
big-data4
boosting4
dask4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhitao-wang/PNRL
Dec 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.