# Tian Zhang

> Advisory Software Engineer at IBM

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tianzhang

## Work Experience
### Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Emeryville, CA

### Algorithm Developer @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
1. Built a web application based on neural networks for flooding control and pollution monitoring of the project named Visual Inspection, implemented in Flask, Bootstrap and Caffe(Python).
2. Innovated a fully convolutional neural network for the segmentation of reservoir surveillance video, accomplished 85.2% Pixel Accuracy and 31.2% Mean IoU.
3. Developed an image annotation tool named ‘inSpecLabel’ with PyQt5 to label objects with pixel accuracy.
4. Applied HOG and SVM-based feature extraction and Hough-transform-based line recognition to measure the readings of the detected water gauges.
5. Developed a fine-tuning strategy to train an industrial inspection models based on Faster-R-CNN for detecting the Printed Circuit Board defects among 25 classes, got a mAP value among all classes above 85% and improved the detecting accuracy by more than 10% approaching 95% comparing to the traditional AOI Inspection System (83%).

### UX Designer intern @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
1. Used MVC framework to develop a website to popularize the Taobao Design Guidelines to customers and traders. 
2. Designed and developed an HTML5 automatic generator “Duang”, used Node.js to make project lightweight, solved asynchronous and callback when design complex interaction effects.
3. Developed a web Mahjong game with Cocos2d-JS game engine, integrated into the promotion pages of ‘Taobao Double Twelve’, a Chinese version of ‘Black Friday’, served 10 million users.


## Education
### master in computer science
Boston University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Science
Wuhan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tianzhang1013

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Last updated: 2026-03-29