Hao Zhang
Senior Research Scientist at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Zhang is a Senior Research Scientist based in Singapore with nine years of experience building and applying large language and multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation, and production-grade AI agents. He has led multimodal foundation model efforts at Alibaba DAMO and contributed to Pangu LLM and a Search Agent at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab before moving into quantitative research at Balyasny Asset Management. Hao blends deep academic training (PhD, Nanyang Technological University) with hands-on engineering across research institutes and industry, routinely moving models from prototype to deployed systems. Known for bridging algorithmic research and applied product needs, he often focuses on efficient, scalable architectures for real-world multimodal workflows. An understated strength is his track record of collaborating across national labs, corporate R&D, and finance, enabling rapid translation of cutting-edge models into domain-specific solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communications Engineering at Dalian University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Chinese, English
Github Skills (51)
python-codes10
robotics10
language-model10
batch-normalization10
machine-learning10
recurrent-neural-networks10
matlab10
image-enhancement10
seq2seq10
reinforcement-learning10
denoising10
vision-and-language10
deep-learning10
paper10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IsaacChanghau/IsaacChanghau.github.io
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
26hzhang/DL-NLP-Readings
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
My Reading Lists of Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 281 pushes in 6 months
deep-learningnatural-language-processingsource-code-linkreinforcement-learningcommonsense
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