Zichen Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Skyfall AI
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZichen Zhang is an experienced researcher-engineer with 11 years building scalable AI systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Skyfall AI focusing on world models and long-horizon reasoning for language agents. He bridges academic rigor and product impact through a PhD from the University of Alberta and roles spanning research labs (Noah’s Ark Lab), startups, and consultancy, with hands-on experience in RL, world models and LLM integration. His work blends elegant algorithms with system-level thinking—moving ideas from papers into robust implementations that scale. Based in Toronto, he has a track record of advancing agent reasoning capabilities and a practical knack for connecting reinforcement learning, learned world models, and large language models in novel ways.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of AlbertaMaster of Applied Science, Master of Applied Science at Dalhousie UniversityHigh SchoolBachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
93reputation
4kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (65)
image-processing10
gymnasium10
deep-learning10
pattern10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
q-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
image-segmentation10
pattern-recognition10
pytorch9
machine-learning9
deploying9
amazon9
tensorboard9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vincentzhang/web
May 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
vincentzhang/u-blog
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020
Code of my academic blog
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
jekyll
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