Zong Fan
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZong Fan is a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at UIUC with a decade of experience applying deep learning to healthcare, bioinformatics, and video/image analysis. Currently at Johnson & Johnson, he builds and benchmarks foundation models for time-series wearable data—designing 1D/2D adaptations of CNNs and ViTs, applying self-supervised pretraining, and innovating loss and augmentation strategies to improve noise robustness. His background spans translational bioinformatics (NGS and single-cell), multimodal fusion for chemical and cellular profiling, and production-ready algorithm engineering for computer vision. Comfortable moving between research and applied engineering, he combines rigorous academic training (UIUC, Zhejiang) with hands-on model development and pipeline design. Outside work he’s a tech geek and snowboarder, reflecting a practical curiosity and appetite for iterative problem-solving in both labs and mountains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS) Biology, General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology, General at Zhejiang University
English
Github Skills (70)
python10
mscoco10
classifier10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
word2vec9
javascript9
opencl9
object-detection-api9
topic-modeling9
lda9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CasiaFan/object_detection_papers_summary
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
zongfan2/Dataset_to_VOC_converter
Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
Scripts to convert datasets (Caltech pedestrian, MS COCO, HDA) to PASCAL VOC format
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 10 months
mscoco
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