CV
General Information
| Full Name | Zhendong Wang |
| Languages | English, Chinese |
Education
- 2020-now
PhD in Statistics & Data Science
University of Texas at Austin
- GPAs 4.0/4.0
- 2018-2020
Master in Data Science
Columbia University
- GPA 4.0/4.0
- 2014-2018
Bachelor in Civil Engineering
Tongji University (Shanghai, China)
- GPA 90.45/100.00
Experience
- summer 2022
ML Research Engineer
Twitter, Inc.
- Developed Offline Reinforcement learning algorithms for long-term valued recommender system.
- summer 2021
ML Research Engineer
Twitter, Inc.
- Developed Multi-Task learning models for Twitter recommender system.
- The model clearly outperforms the current serving model and the code was ready to ship before my leave.
- 2022-now
Teaching Asistant
University of Texas at Austin
Academic Interests
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Deep generative models, such as GANs, VAE, and diffusion models.
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Reinforcement Learning (Online/Offline).
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Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification methods.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: tennis, hiking, etc.