Zhuokun Ding
Founding Machine Learning Research Scientist at Metamorphic
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhuokun Ding is a computational neuroscientist and founding machine learning research scientist with 8 years of experience applying ML, statistical modeling, and scalable systems to understand and emulate neural circuits. He builds and validates brain “digital twins” using state-of-the-art deep architectures and distributed pipelines, and has driven novel GLMM-based inference that links neuronal tuning to anatomical connectivity. His work spans academic (Nature first-author publication, SfN/COSYNE presentations) and industry impact—designing LLM adaptation pipelines at Amazon that let compact models outperform much larger baselines on domain tasks. Based in Menlo Park, he combines hands-on engineering (Kubernetes/GPU clusters, MySQL, Python/R) with theoretical insight, and has a knack for translating biologically inspired principles into robust AI systems. An indicator of his experimental rigor is a twofold increase in neuronal tuning extraction yield from his validation frameworks, highlighting emphasis on reproducibility as well as performance.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine
Github Skills (43)
relational-model9
system-identification9
metadata-management8
python8
relational-algebra8
data-integrity8
relational8
datajoint7
snyk7
kong-plugin7
database-schema7
data-lineage7
object-storage7
google-colab7
foundation-models7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ZhuokunDing/pipeline
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
Schemata and libraries for neuroscientific data
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
schemataopensciencepythonlda
atlab/datajoint-python
Mar 2022 - May 2025
Relational data pipelines for the science lab
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
relationalpythonsciencedata-analysisdata-science
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