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Curriculum Vitae of Peining Zhang
General Information
| Full Name | Peining Zhang |
| peining.zhang@uconn.edu |
Education
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2024 - present Ph.D.
University of Connecticut -
2023 - 2024 Ph.D.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute -
2019 - 2021 M.S.
Rutgers University -
2015 - 2019 B.E.
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Experience
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2023 - 2024 Teaching Assistant
Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Conducted office hours and assisted students with programming assignments and technical implementations
- Designed and graded programming projects.
- {"Courses"=>"Machine Learning, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals"}
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2021 - 2023 Machine Learning Engineer
Kuaishou Co., Personalized Ads Marketing Group - Developed purchasing intention model for e-commerce marketing system, boosting ROI by 15%
- Established audience targeting dashboards and analysis, increasing Daily New Users by 50%
- Collaborated on low-quality data filtering, improving landing page CTR prediction AUC by 2%
- Developed DID analysis framework for evaluating 50+ experiments beyond traditional A/B testing
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2018 - 2019 Research Assistant
Laboratory of Semantic Computing and Data Mining, USTC (Advisor: Linli Xu) - Collected music and comments to construct paired music–text datasets
- Built a Seq2Seq model with dilated CNN encoder and memory-based RNN decoder for thematic comment generation
- Proposed two GAN-based evaluation metrics better aligned with human evaluation
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2017 - 2018 Research Assistant
USTC–Birmingham Joint Research Institute (Advisor: Ke Tang) - Added asymmetry to distance measurement in Negatively Correlated Search, improving efficiency by >10x
- Surpassed all results of IEEE CEC-11 competition in application
Service
- Reviewer — TNNLS 2022
Research Interests
- 3D generative models, drug discovery, NLP generative models, data mining, recommendation systems