Zehan Wang

Head of Cortex Applied Research

2020 - 2021

Eng lead for the machine learning research organisation at Twitter, overlooking a range of applied ML research at Twitter - ranging from recommender systems to user and content understanding, as well as fundamentals of how to do ML at scale (e.g. continuous learning, online learning, reinforcement learning, graph learning), and how best to apply that to the product.

Senior Manager, ML Software Engineering

2018 - 2021

Manager, ML Software Engineering

2016 - 2018

Magic Pony Technology is now part of Twitter!

Co-Founder & CTO

2014 - 2016

Magic Pony Technology is a research-led software company, working on applications of machine learning for visual processing and low-level vision problems. Acquired by Twitter in 2016.

Cohort Member

2014 - 2015

Entrepreneur First (EF) is a start-up pre-accelerator which selects purely on the basis of technical talent and provides an intensive six-month programme designed to test teams and ideas, and push them to their full potential.

PhD Student

2011 - 2014

Computing Research, Visual Information Processing, Biomedical Image Analysis Group Thesis title: Patch-based Segmentation with Spatial Context for Medical Image Analysis

Consultant

2010 - 2011

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

2009 - 2010

Taking a small group of first year computing students for tutorials in logic, discrete maths and reasoning about programs

Analyst

2009 - 2009

Industrial placement

Software Engineer

2008 - 2008

Internship