Zhihan Zhang
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihan Zhang is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Rufus with eight years of experience advancing instruction-following and agent training for large language models. He completed a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and has a track record of research internships across top labs (Amazon, Microsoft, Snap, Tencent) focused on instruction tuning, reinforcement learning, and knowledge-augmented reasoning. Zhihan blends academic rigor with production-minded research, shifting from recommender-system optimization to fine-tuning foundation models for alignment and math/ cross-lingual accuracy. Notably, his work spans both evaluation methodologies and practical post-training techniques, helping bridge model capabilities and real-world instruction-following behavior.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
reflection5
language-model4
natural-language-processing4
evaluation4
llm2
bootstrap2
transformer1
pytorch1
tensorflow1
large-language-models1
encoder-decoder1
question-answering1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ytyz1307zzh/NCET-ProPara
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
A re-implementation of NCET on ProPara dataset (NAACL 2019 Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP).
Contributions:134 commits, 24 pushes in 27 days
natural-language-processing
ytyz1307zzh/Miscellany
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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