Xing Zhang
AI Research Engineer at Sony
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolXing Zhang is an AI research engineer with a decade of experience specializing in AI for animation and multi-modal video understanding, currently driving research at Sony after a stint at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics on AI4Animation and AIGC detection. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Fudan University and has applied his research in industrial settings including Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, focusing on pre-training and generative content. With roots in humanoid robotics from Dalian University of Technology and hands-on RoboCup experience, he blends robotics, vision, and generative AI to solve practical animation problems. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Xing brings a creator’s sensibility—he’s an amateur cosplayer and ACG culture enthusiast—which informs his mission to “Make Animation Great Again.” A forward-moving practitioner (進んでゆく 止まるなんて), he combines academic rigor with production-aware engineering to push animation tech into new expressive territory.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at 复旦大学Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrochemistry and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrochemistry and Engineering at Dalian University of Technology
Github Skills (48)
python10
paddlepaddle10
distributed-training9
video-understanding9
transparent-object-detection9
machine-learning9
xception9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
resnet9
scalability9
attention-model8
pytorch8
imagenet8
robotics7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
17Skye17/17Skye17.github.io
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:164 pushes in 3 years 11 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
17Skye17/2019WAIC-hackthon-Garbage-Classification
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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