About

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Yuan (Gabriel) Zhang

Research Assistant developing real-time computer vision systems for autonomous agricultural vehicles at USDA Agricultural Research Service. My work focuses on precision weed control through edge AI deployment on NVIDIA Jetson platforms—achieving 8.6x inference speedup via TensorRT optimization—with multi-process architectures for sensor integration and safety-critical control.

Previously: MS in Machine Learning & Data Science, Northwestern University; BS in Data Science, UC Irvine.

Research Interests:

  • Computer Vision
  • Efficient Deep Learning
  • Edge AI
  • ML Systems
  • Autonomous Systems

News

May 27, 2025 Thrilled to join the USDA Agricultural Research Service as a Research Assistant in Computer Vision & Agricultural Robotics! 🌱
Dec 20, 2024 I successfully graduated from the MLDS program at Northwestern University. Looking forward to my next journey!
Jul 15, 2024 Grateful for the opportunity to join SS&C Intralinks as a Data Science Engineer Intern this summer!