Yang Zhang

Master Student in Computer Science at Brown University.

I received my bachelor's degree at Beihang University (BUAA) in 2018.

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Academic Interests

I'm interested in Machine Learning(Statistical Learning, Deep Learning, etc) and its interaction with society and industry.

Work Experience
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Horizon Robotics
Cupertino, CA, USA
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Internship at the Applied AI Lab in San Francisco Bay Area. Focus on computer vision project based on neural network models. Proposed and implemented the deep learning algorithm, I have participated in data preprocessing, network design, model training and model analysis. The model is written in MXNet and PyTorch based on MobileNet.

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Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Nov 2018 - May 2019

Working as a student developer in the Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Rockefeller Library. Mainly coding with JavaScript and Python.

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Megvii Inc. (Face++)
Beijing, China
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

Worked as a software development intern in the Object Detection team, Face++(also known as Megvii).

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VMware
Beijing, China
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

Responsible for VMware Fusion at VMware Beijing, developing a Python framework of automated testing on UI and Performance of the Fusion, based on the Apple Mac OS automator programming interface.

Publications

Web Crawling in Action. (Tsinghua University Press, 2019. Written in Chinese)

Miscellaneous

Beyond the Computer Science related stuff, I'm obsessed in:

  • Philosiphy (think about Spinoza and Lao Tzu)
  • Chinese History (the technology evolution and economic reforms in China)
  • Sci-Fi from Cixin Liu
  • Piano music
  • My Blog (in Chinese, non-technical)