Ziqi Zhang
Senior Data Scientist At Escalator (Prev. Accessible Intelligence)
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZiqi Zhang is a Senior Data Scientist based in Manchester with 12 years’ experience building production-grade NLP and agentic systems that accelerate delivery by more than 5×. He specializes in AI-directed engineering—decomposing problems, orchestrating multi-agent pipelines, and treating models like instruments (Claude, Gemini, Codex) to generate, critique, and maintain code and content at scale. At Escalator he delivers LLM-powered fundraising solutions—automated news intelligence, multi-agent content pipelines, ReAct agents, and Neo4j-backed RAG infrastructure—designed with rigorous evaluation across GPT, Gemini, and Claude. His background includes 15 years of NLP research, 80+ peer-reviewed papers, and award-winning startups, which gives him deep insight into model failure modes and how to push architectures beyond common practice. He combines academic rigor (PhD, University of Sheffield) with hands-on production engineering on Azure and Python, making him equally at home in research, product design, and deployment. An unusual strength: he doesn’t just prompt models—he engineers the surrounding specifications, guardrails, and evaluation loops that make agentic systems reliable in the real world.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of SheffieldMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of BirminghamBSc, Software Engineering and Management, BSc, Software Engineering and Management at University of Leeds
English, Chinese
Github Skills (95)
terminology10
solr10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
gru10
relation-extraction10
classification10
partition10
freebase10
text-mining10
workitem10
levenshtein10
twitter9
pii9
levenshtein-distance9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ziqizhang/wop
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:133 pushes in 2 years 11 months
amiarafat/jatetoolkit
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
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