Zihao Zheng
Data Science Manager
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZihao Zheng is a Data Science Manager and former Staff Data Scientist at Google with 12 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products that improve Ads user experience, UI, and Search Generative Experience. He leads cross-functional teams in Sunnyvale to deploy GenAI innovations and optimize ad formats and interfaces, combining hands-on modeling with product-focused experimentation. His background includes impactful internships at ByteDance, Kuaishou, and Eli Lilly where he developed causal inference tooling and an Empirical Bayes framework for clinical trials, reflecting strong methodological depth from a PhD in Statistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Comfortable bridging research and production, he also works on NLP and ASR for dialog systems, bringing a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to large-scale ad ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Beijing Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (143)
transformers10
similarity-search10
dep10
language-model10
dataflow10
python10
nearest-neighbors10
mxnet10
flax10
deep-learning10
cython10
clustering10
portable10
javascript10
ml10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zihaolucky/Quantitive-Investing
Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:154 commits in 8 months
zihaolucky/Machine-Learning-and-UFLDL
Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 8 months
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