Haozhe Zhang is a tech lead and AI engineer with a PhD in Statistics and a decade of experience building production-grade AI systems across Microsoft, Huawei, and ByteDance. He combines deep academic training in statistics with hands-on expertise in privacy-preserving AI, AutoML, post-training and agentic RL for domain-specific LLMs, and large-scale graph methods for recommendation. Known for bridging research and engineering, he has led core algorithm work in Azure Machine Learning and created telecom-focused LLM agents that interact with wireless network world models. A pragmatic problem-solver and communicator, he excels at coordinating cross-functional teams to move research into scalable products. Based in Shanghai, he brings a growth mindset and quantitative rigor to complex, real-world AI challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Iowa State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics at University of Science and Technology of China
Exchange Student, Mathematics, Exchange Student, Mathematics at National Taiwan University
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