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Yifan Zhang
Member #536DeveloperL1L7 Research Scientist, Vanderbilt University
Senior Software Engineer at Google
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About
Yifan Zhang is a Research Scientist at Salesforce AI Research in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on AI for software engineering and agentic AI. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University and an M.Sc. from Georgia Institute of Technology. Before that he worked as a machine learning engineer at JD.com and did research internships at Google, Amazon AWS and IBM. His recent papers cover code vulnerability repair and models that mimic human visual attention.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer at Google