Haotian Zhang
Staff Research Scientist at TikTok
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHaotian Zhang is a machine learning researcher-engineer and startup CTO with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and leading cross-functional teams. As Co-Founder and CTO of QuiverAI and former Technical Lead for multimodal and computer vision teams at Learnable, he blends research rigor from Columbia with hands-on engineering that pushes models past baseline performance. He has a track record of taking prototypes to product as a founding engineer and scaling multimodal pipelines in commercial settings. Based in the United States with roots in Northeastern University (CN) and Columbia, Haotian is curious by design—his compact GitHub mantra "Beat Baseline" reflects a practical obsession with measurable model improvements and pragmatic deployment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor and Master, Computer Science, Bachelor and Master, Computer Science at Harbin Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CS, Information Retrieval, NLP, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CS, Information Retrieval, NLP, Machine Learning at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
ocr10
pdf-to-text10
pdf10
vector-database10
cal10
llm10
parsing10
fine-tuning10
structured-data10
llama-index10
application10
retrieval9
lucene9
information-retrieval9
recall9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HTAustin/LeetCode
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:619 pushes in 2 years 7 months
HTAustin/PersonalWeb
May 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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