Zhitao WANG
Research Scientist at Tencent
Summary
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SeniorZhitao 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
Github Skills (13)
machine-learning6
java6
scala5
python5
spark5
distributed-systems5
xgboost5
cpp4
dataflow4
hadoop4
gbm3
dask3
gradient-boosting2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhitao-wang/PNRL
Dec 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
zhitao-wang/zhitao-wang.github.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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