Zhiyu Cheng
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiyu Cheng is an AI/ML architect and engineering manager with a Ph.D. and over a decade of professional experience, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends deep academic training in electrical engineering and statistics with hands-on leadership to design and deliver production-grade machine learning systems. Known for hiring and building strong teams, he translates complex research into scalable architectures and operational workflows. His background includes top grades in a U.S. MS program and a doctoral focus that enables rigorous, data-driven decision making. Colleagues value his ability to bridge theoretical models and practical engineering constraints to accelerate product impact.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 4.0/4.0 (10 courses), Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 4.0/4.0 (10 courses) at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor of Science (Honours), Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Information Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (57)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
machine-translation10
llama10
speech-synthesis10
inference10
multimodal10
large-language-models10
nmt10
llm10
speaker-recognition10
asr10
generative-ai10
conversational-ai10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Edwardf0t1/sglang
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
SGLang is a fast serving framework for large language models and vision language models.
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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