Yanxiang Zhang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanxiang Zhang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience building and deploying language models at scale, currently leading Gemini Nano–based tools at Google. He specializes in LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, RL), privacy-preserving federated learning with differential privacy, and on-device model deployment to improve real-world decoding and feature quality. Yanxiang has progressed through multiple engineering and staff roles at Google, pairing research-grade algorithmic work with production systems engineering. His background—anchored by a Software Engineering MS from Beihang University and early ML internships at Baidu and Tencent—reflects a consistent focus on bringing compact, privacy-conscious LMs to edge environments. Notably, he blends model optimization techniques with applied systems know-how to make small-scale LMs performant in constrained, user-facing settings.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering and Management, Master's degree Software Engineering and Management at Beihang University
Github Skills (21)
pytorch10
python10
classification10
machine-learning10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
machine-learning-models9
transformers9
inference9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stdcoutzyx/DeepID_FaceClassify
Jul 2014 - May 2015
Practise of DeepID for Face Classification
Contributions:41 commits, 18 pushes, 5 comments in 9 months
classification
stdcoutzyx/Blogs
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:119 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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