# Yiming Zhang

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yimingzhang

I'm passionate about taking ideas from 0 to 1, turning abstract concepts into real-world solutions. I've built prototype features and startup products using RAG, VLM/LLM fine-tuning, cloud technologies, and inference optimization. Started my journey as a math student, I was captivated by data-driven reasoning—how to combine logic with information, verify, improve, iterate, and automate the process. This mindset drives my work and fuels my passion for building and perfecting things even from scratch.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Graduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
● Designing LLM decoding via multi-agent signaling, improving acc. by 5.2% through self-play.
● Researching on learning natural language algorithms and pseudocode generation.

### Software Engineer Intern @ British Council
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
● Led development of essay grading and staff allocation features in the IELTS system serving 3.5M users.
● Built a BERT model and LangChain pipeline to create essay in-line comments and scores with 83.5% acc.
● Developed an optimized scheduling algorithm and reduced errors by 12%.

### Research Intern @ Apollo Therapeutics @ Cambridge Judge Business School
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
● Developed an R&D portfolio optimization model for phase 2-3 drug development.
● Integrated dynamic modeling with optimized penalized regression and decision trees, raising 25% return.
● Data cleaning and testing on pharmaceutical datasets to refine and validate the model.

### ML Researcher @ Center for Visual Computing @ UC San Diego
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
● Designed and built a tool to automatically code and quantify gaze behaviors in real-world interactions.
● Boosted accuracy by 12% by fine-tuning a Faster R-CNN with an integrated LSTM for gaze detection.
● Developed 3 social interaction tests for assessing ASD and a video data processing pipeline.


## Education
### Mathematics
University of Cambridge

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Computer Science in Mathematics
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yiming-zhang05

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Last updated: 2026-04-11