Summary
Zhongbo Yan is a software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience at the intersection of cloud, ML, security, and full‑stack engineering. He has moved machine learning projects from research to production at scale—architecting an MLOps pipeline on GCP that sped deployments from weeks to hours and deploying models across millions of Android TVs. His academic work on adversarial data augmentation improved AlexNet generalizability on knee MRI datasets and was published at IEEE ICSESS, demonstrating a rare blend of applied research and production impact. Zhongbo also brings hands‑on systems experience from internships building Kubernetes‑deployed MES, real‑time chat UIs, and native iOS apps, and he mentors students on LLM safety and ML security topics. He blogs at aspires.cc, where he explains technical ideas and visual designs, reflecting a strong communicator who bridges engineering, research, and product.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Program, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Program at Macao Polytechnic University
Summer Research Program, Computer Science, Summer Research Program, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Master’s of Science, Mobile and IoT, Master’s of Science, Mobile and IoT at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, Chinese, English, French