Zhiwei Fan
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiwei Fan is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience blending deep academic training (Ph.D. in Computer Science) with industry research and engineering at Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook. Based in Madison, WI, he focuses on curiosity-driven research that translates into practical systems and has progressed through research and engineering internships into senior roles at Meta. His background spans applied mathematics and CS, giving him a strong analytical foundation for tackling ML, systems, or algorithmic challenges. Notably, he moved from graduate teaching and early-data-science internships into sustained research roles at major tech labs, reflecting both mentorship experience and production-minded research.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
java3
dataframe2
redis2
spark2
apache2
lstm-model1
pytorch1
lstm1
deep-learning1
redis-cluster1
sum1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Hacker0912/quickstep-datalog
May 2020 - Apr 2023
Mirror of Apache Quickstep Incubator
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
javaincubatorapache
Hacker0912/RecStep
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 54 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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