Zizhen Chen
Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZizhen Chen is a Senior Software Engineer at The MathWorks with eight years of experience building embedded code generation and modeling infrastructure for Simulink Coder and Embedded Coder. He blends deep academic training—a PhD and MS in Computer Science—with practical engineering, having taught programming, algorithms, and creative coding across engineering and art schools at Southern Methodist University. His research in visualized algorithm engineering and graph partitioning informs practical work on clustering, community detection, and data/algorithm visualizations for large-scale systems. Zizhen has hands-on experience across C++, MATLAB integrations, UI design, and software security, and has improved large legacy codebases through class-based modeling frameworks and performance fixes. An educator-turned-engineer, he brings a rare combination of pedagogy, visualization sensibility, and production-grade tooling to embedded and data-heavy software problems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.911, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.911 at Southern Methodist University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
android-app10
android-application10
office-js9
kotlin9
android8
yeoman8
yeoman-generator8
npm-package7
nodejs6
cdn6
npm6
vue5
aws5
api5
microsoft5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
team6150/6150project
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 19 days
lukchen/csye6225-spring2018
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 248 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
vue-jsplatform-infrastructurekoa-jsinfrastructuredocker
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