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Zhanhao Liu

Biography

I obtained my CS Master degree from Georgia Institude of Technology. During my master study, I worked with Prof. Xu Chu on Data Management and ML research. Also, I teamed up with researchers from Alibaba and won the third place in the KDD 2019 AutoML Challenge.

Before Georgia Tech, I did my undergrad in Computer Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. James Cheng on the topic of Distributed ML System.

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Interests

  • Big Data System
  • Data Management
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2019

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2018

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Google

Mar 2020 – Present Sunnyvale, CA
  • Scalable and reliable identity and access management services for Alphabet
 
 
 
 
 

Application Engineer Intern

Google

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Sunnyvale, CA
Financial ML Applications development
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Georgia Tech

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019 Atlanta, GA
  • CS 4400 Introduction to Database Systems (Spring/Fall 2019)
  • CS 8803 DML: Data Management and Machine Learning (Fall 2018)
 
 
 
 
 

ML System Engineer Intern

SenseTime

May 2018 – Jul 2018 Shenzhen, China
Researched and developed large scale real-time image processing system

Publications

Tangram: Bridging Immutable and Mutable Abstractions for Distributed Data Analytics

Data analytics frameworks that adopt immutable data abstraction usually provide better support for failure recovery and straggler …

Projects

Yelp Discrepancy Detection

Yelp Score Prediction & Discrepancy detection

FlexPS

A Flexiable Parameter Server System for Distributed Machine Learning

K-means++

Web Scale K-means++ Clustering on FlexPS

Molecular Binding Affinity Prediction

Computer-Aided Molecular Binding Affinity Prediction

MYFS

Survey on existing distributed file storage systems & my own distributed file system using FUSE