Resume

Basics

Name Gabriel Zhang
Email yuanzzhang3@gmail.com

Education

  • Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

    Evanston, IL

    Master's degree
    Northwestern University
    Machine Learning and Data Science
    • Foundation Models
    • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
    • Deep Learning
    • Predictive Analytics
    • Cloud Engineering
    • Data Mining
  • Aug 2019 - Jun 2023

    Irvine, CA

    Bachelor's degree
    University of California, Irvine
    Data Science
    • Machine Learning
    • Big Data Analytics
    • Probability and Statistics
    • Algorithms
    • Information Retrieval

Work

  • Jul 2024 - Sep 2024

    Waltham, MA

    Data Science Engineer Intern
    SS&C Intralinks
    • Engineered a language-identification POC to boost OCR accuracy for multilingual text in images
    • Evaluated 30 vision-language models based on accuracy, processing latency, and memory efficiency on AWS EC2
    • Built efficient Python pipelines for text-rich image detection and CLIP-based language identification, achieving 99% top-1 accuracy at 0.15s/document latency
    • Projected $300K annual cost savings by reducing dependency on third-party OCR APIs
  • Jul 2021 - Aug 2021

    Shanghai, China

    Data Analyst Intern
    Shanghai Daiqian Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    • Developed a feedback tracking system to streamline feedback collection with automated reminders using YiDA (Alibaba Cloud), reducing collection time by 65% and expanding testing capacity by 50%
    • Conducted customer segmentation and product performance analysis to enhance customer experience, designing 20+ data visualizations using R and ggplot2

Awards

Skills

Machine Learning & AI
LLM [Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI API]
NLP [NLTK, Sentence Transformers, BERTopic, SpaCy]
DL/ML [PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Statsmodels, MLflow]
Core [Pandas, NumPy, OpenCV]
Data Platforms
Spark
Databricks
Hadoop
Pinecone
BigQuery
MongoDB
Neo4j
Cassandra
PostgreSQL
AWS Services
SageMaker
EC2
ECS
S3
RDS
Lambda
SQS
MLOps
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Linux
Unit Testing
Flask
REST API
Data Visualization
Tableau
Excel
Seaborn
Matplotlib
ggplot2

Volunteer

  • Jun 2022 - Oct 2023
    Software Developer
    Irvine Canaan Christian Community Church
    Architected a secure children's check-in/out system via barcode verification