Zhuang-fang Yi
Machine Learning Team Lead - Surgical AI at Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolZhuang-fang Yi is a machine learning leader with ~10 years of experience building production-scale deep learning and computer vision systems across geospatial and surgical domains. Currently leading surgical AI at the Surgical Data Science Collective, she blends hands-on model development—ranging from vision transformers and time-series transformers to active learning pipelines—with mentoring and technical leadership. Her career includes scaling geospatial ML pipelines that analyzed tens of millions of agricultural fields and deploying models that work in data-sparse, global environments. She is passionate about foundation models for medicine and scientific applications and routinely drives end-to-end ownership from data strategy and MLOps to clinical collaboration. Outside engineering, she runs an art business that donates profits to conservation, humanitarian, and AI ethics causes, reflecting an uncommon mix of technical rigor and civic-minded creativity.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecological Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecological Economics at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Geography, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Geography at Sun Yat-sen University
English, Chinese, tai languages, Lao
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
python10
deep-learning10
satellite10
nvidia-docker10
ml10
parking10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
translator10
raster10
data-science10
vector10
tensorflow10
satellite-imagery10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
developmentseed/unicef-schools
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
AI assisted school detection from high-res satellite imagery with UNICEF
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
satellite-imagerypythondeep-learningressatellite
Geoyi/pixel-decoder
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
A tool for running deep learning algorithms for semantic segmentation with satellite imagery
Contributions:71 commits, 6 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 6 months
satellite-imagerysemantic-segmentationcomputervisionlabelmakerpixel-decoder
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