Kevin Zhang

Ex-Meta

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Candidate for M.Eng degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Experience

  • Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Lightspark
    Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    Low-latency ML and strategic AI projects.

  • Senior Software Engineer, Ads Core ML at Facebook
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Multi-task modeling, knowledge distillation, and semi-supervised learning.

  • Research Engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 · 6 mos

    Synthetic data generation with Copulas, GANs, and VAEs.

  • Research Assistant at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
    Aug 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Building a decentralized data science and machine learning marketplace which offers users differential privacy guarantees.

  • Facebook (1 yr 5 mos)
    • Contingent Worker
      Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Contractor for Pro Unlimited @ Facebook. This is an extension of my Summer 2018 internship, to be continued in Summer 2019.

    • Software Engineer Intern
      May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

      I applied natural language processing, machine learning, and econometrics techniques to large datasets to find solutions to novel problems. Over the course of my internship, I worked with engineers, economists, and product managers to inform and support the decisions of the leadership team. The group is a startup within Facebook with a vision to improve the lives of billions of people around the world. All additional information about the projects I worked on is currently covered by NDA.