Wei Zhang
Senior Director & Principal Research Scientist at Visa
Nanjing City, Jiangsu, United States
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Top SchoolWei Zhang is a Senior Director and Principal Research Scientist with 11 years in industry research leadership and over two decades of technical experience driving ML, deep learning, and speech systems from prototype to production. At Visa he led novel projects including a Payment Foundation Model and Deep Authorization fraud systems that operatively handle hundreds of millions of entities and real-world challenges like cold starts and incremental relearning. He has authored 40+ academic papers and disclosed 40+ patents, combining strong research rigor with hands-on engineering in Python, PyTorch, Java, C/C++, Hadoop/Hive and Spark. Prior roles at Facebook, Nuance and IBM highlight a long history of building deployed TTS and recommender systems and organizing international teams and cross-functional product transitions. Known for bridging foundational research and productization, he brings a pragmatic focus on scalability and real-world constraints such as data sparsity and delayed signals.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Tsinghua University
English
Github Skills (200)
csrf10
autocomplete10
material-ui10
bitnami10
svg10
vuejs210
solidjs10
browser10
iview10
jsonwebtoken10
static-site-generator10
apache10
ssg10
video-player10
nodejs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zhangwei900808/AcPlayer
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
zhangwei900808/zhangwei900808.github.io
Sep 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 365 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
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