Summary
Zhongwei Teng is a research scientist at Meta with a decade of experience bridging academic research and production AI, currently completing a PhD in Computer Science at Vanderbilt. He has applied deep learning across industry and academia—working on video recommendation at Meta, AI research engineering at Duolingo, and multimodal tasks like sketch-based visualization, NL-to-Bash translation, and speech spoof detection as a Vanderbilt researcher. Comfortable moving between prototypes and deployed systems, he has full-stack experience from RESTful APIs and React Native to model development and evaluation. Known as a curious, collaborative problem-solver, he combines strong engineering chops with a researcher’s rigor to turn exploratory ideas into robust products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sichuan University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
English, Chinese