Zixian Ma

Product Engineer

Stanford, California, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple research projects accepted at top conferences.
  • Optimized algorithms resulting in significant efficiency gains.
  • Implemented advanced techniques in language model development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled researcher in AI/ML with a focus on algorithm optimization and model development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Algorithm OptimizationModel DevelopmentLanguage Model DevelopmentResearch LeadershipAdversarial Machine Learning

Other Skills

Multi-Objective Bayesian OptimizationMixture of ExpertsAuto Gradient BalancingPrompt-tuningTransformersFinetuningJavaScriptPythonC++JAVAHTMLCSS

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Ai2

Research Internship

Jun 2025Present · 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Working on video-language models and web agents.

Salesforce

Research Scientist Intern

Jun 2024Sep 2024 · 3 mos

  • Trained multi-modal language models to reason and act

Facebook

Software Engineer

Dec 2022May 2023 · 5 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • optimized FB stories ranking algorithm by tuning value model weights with Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization
  • built Multi-task Multi-label models and optimized them with Mixture of Experts modules and auto gradient balancing techniques
  • saved multi-feed CPU by >0.6% (considered a significant efficiency win to the company)

Google

Research Intern

Aug 2022Nov 2022 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Implemented prompt-tuning techniques on top of transformers-based language models
  • Finetuned foundation language model LaMDA with prompt-tuning techniques and vision-language model CoCa on the realistic screen navigation dataset MoTIF, where our models outperform STOA baselines

Tsinghua university

Research Intern

Dec 2020May 2021 · 5 mos · Beijing, China

  • worked on OpenAttack, an open-source toolkit for developing adversarial attacks and defenses
  • OpenAttack was accepted by ACL2021 demo track

Stanford artificial intelligence laboratory (sail)

Student Researcher

Mar 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Stanford, California, United States

  • Led the research project ELIGN, which was accepted by NeurIPS 2022
  • Led the research project CREPE, which was accepted by CVPR 2023 as a highlight paper (2.5% of submissions)

Techx academy

Head Academic Lead

Jul 2019Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Shanghai City, China

  • • Tutored high school students on Bioinformatics, specifically on using R, Python and Biopython for data analysis

Ibm

Algorithm Engineer Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Education

Stanford University

CS Major & Biology Minor — Biocomputation

Jan 2018Jan 2022

University of Washington

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Jul 2023Jun 2028

World Leading Schools Association - Fudan Academy

General Education

Jan 2015Jan 2018

The Johns Hopkins University

Summer School

Jan 2017Jan 2017

University of Cambridge

Cambridge Future Leaders Programme

Jan 2016Jan 2016

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