About

Greetings! ~ My name is Tong Zeng (曾通 in Chinese).

I’m a Researcher and Machine Learning Engineer specializing in the Science of Science and Applied Natural Language Processing, with a broad scientific background that ranges from economics, information science and computer science, and many years of working experience in industry.

I received my Ph.D. in Information Science from Nanjing University where I am lucky to be advised by Professor Xinning Su in 2022, shortly after completing of the joint Ph.D. research training advised by Dr. Daniel Acuna at Syracuse University from Fall 2017 to Spring 2021.

Please visit my publication page or Google Scholar profile for details of my research.

I also have many years working experience in industry, such as:

Software Development Engineer in JD.com (NASDAQ: JD, the biggest Internet company by revenue in China), where I led the design and implementation of a distributed server‑side rendering system for generating H5 pages for core channels and tens of thousands of promotional activities, with daily page views in the hundreds of millions and peak queries per second (QPS) in the tens of thousands.

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Geely Automobile Research Institute (Geely is the owner of brands: Volvo Cars, Lotus, Geometry, Lynk & Co, Zeekr, etc.), as one of the founding members of the AI Algorithm Development Team, deeply involved in talent acquisition, the architecture design and implementation of Geely Smart Voice Assistant.