Ziang Zhou

Ziang Zhou at Big Sur

About Me

My name is Ziang Zhou. In December 2023, I received M.Sc. of Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS) at Language Technology Institute (LTI), School of Computer Science (SCS) of Carnegie Mellon University. In May 2022, I received my dual B.Sc. of Data Science from Duke University and Duke Kunshan University.

Industry Experience

Currently I am working as a ML engineer at Pinterest.

In the summer of 2023, I interned at Pinterest Labs with the Ads Measurement Modeling Team as an Machine Learning Engineer. I worked on the self-supervised pretraining for User Match Prediction on Ads conversions.

Back in the summer of 2021, I interned at ByteDance AI Lab as an algorithm engineer, focusing on Dialect Machine Translation from Mandarin to Cantonese for the CapCut App.

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R&D

During my Graduate studies, I work with Dr. Shinji Watanabe on Compositional ASR and TTS systems, and speech to speech systems.

During my undergraduate studies, I worked as a research assistant in Speech and Multimodal Intelligent Information Processing (SMIIP) Lab, with wonderful Dr. Ming Li. My primary focus is computational paralinguistics, including conversation escalation detection, speech emotion recognition, bird sound detection and recognition, etc.

I developed and maintained several python libraries such as XenoPy and easybird. My current research and engineering interests are mainly in computational linguistics. In my spare time, I also explore AI-based quantitative analysis, and general AI.

About this site

This is a personal blog site that shares both technologies and personal stuff, which may cover life records, reflections, important moments and decisions in my life.