Yiwei Zhang
Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolYiwei Zhang is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with eight years of experience building and applying large language models enriched with geospatial intelligence. He combines academic rigor—evident from his PhD work and visiting researcher stint at Carnegie Mellon—with industry experience in generative recommendation systems from a DoorDash ML internship. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Yiwei bridges multimodal ML research and teaching, mentoring students as a long‑time teaching assistant while shipping applied model solutions. Colleagues would describe him as a curious, persistence-driven researcher—aptly summarized on his GitHub as "a boy chasing his dream"—who focuses on making foundational models spatially aware for real-world personalization and mapping challenges.
8 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 University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (45)
fluid10
hexo10
comment-system10
netlify9
residual-networks9
pytorch9
python9
railway9
static-site9
vision-transformer9
unsupervised-learning9
baidu9
mongodb9
object-detection9
sqlite8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zywvvd/HexoLocalSearch
Jun 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:288 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
zywvvd/HexoFiles
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:559 pushes in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.