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Zihao Zheng
AI Infrastructure & Speech-Language Systems Architect
Building reliable, explainable, and verifiable AI at production scale
About
More about me →I am an AI Infrastructure & Speech-Language Systems Architect. Previously, I was a founding core AI architect of Alibaba's Tmall Genie, where I designed the NLU domain-classification engine and end-to-end ASR architecture serving tens of millions of households. Before that, I received my B.Sc. in Information and Computing Science from South China Normal University.
I am the primary author of standalone TensorBoard
(dmlc/tensorboard),
first inventor on two granted patents in
speech and language systems, and a former
Apache MXNet
PMC Member and Committer.
I care about building AI that operators can inspect, verify, and trust at
production scale.
Selected work
All projects →Two granted patents running on Tmall Genie at national scale, and the open-source infrastructure that came before them. Every page carries a working model of the idea you can operate yourself — no video, no slides, just the mechanism.
Patent CN112002313B · Interactive
Memory-Network NLU
Rules or the model — which one gets to win? Neither answer routes all seven requests. That impossibility is the patent.
Patent CN113808593B · Interactive
Indicator Loss for Context-Aware ASR
Delete one contact and watch the transcript break. Same sounds, valid words, wrong meaning — fixable without retraining.
Open source · ML infrastructure · Interactive
Standalone TensorBoard
Why should seeing your own training run cost you a second framework? I rebuilt TensorBoard as a standalone logging and rendering tool. Google's own now ships the same way.
Academic Services
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Conference Program Committee Member / Reviewer
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Industry Track, 2026
- ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) Research & Practice Notes and Demos Tracks, 2026
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Workshop Reviewer
- Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (WNUT), @EMNLP 2026
- Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP (UncertaiNLP), @EMNLP 2026
- Efficient Representation Learning for Multimodal Information Retrieval (EReL@MIR), @ACM MM 2026
Recent Posts
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blog
How I became an IEEE Senior Member — and how I can refer you
A practical walkthrough of my IEEE Senior Member elevation, what the application asks for, and an open offer to refer qualified peers in AI infrastructure, speech, and language systems.
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