I am a Master of Engineering candidate at the University of Toronto with hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-based systems, RLHF (PPO) for controllable generation, and reproducible ML experimentation. I enjoy crafting clean Python/PyTorch pipelines, performing rigorous evaluations (metrics + ablations), and turning research ideas into robust tooling and experiments.

Shiming Zhang

I am a Master of Engineering candidate at the University of Toronto with hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-based systems, RLHF (PPO) for controllable generation, and reproducible ML experimentation. I enjoy crafting clean Python/PyTorch pipelines, performing rigorous evaluations (metrics + ablations), and turning research ideas into robust tooling and experiments.

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I am a Master of Engineering candidate at the University of Toronto with hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-based systems, RLHF (PPO) for controllable generation, and reproducible ML experimentation.

I enjoy crafting clean Python/PyTorch pipelines, performing rigorous evaluations (metrics + ablations), and turning research ideas into robust tooling and experiments.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Research Assistant at MANGA LAB
September 1, 2023 - February 1, 2024
Replicated and analyzed code/results from “Weakly Supervised Explainable Phrasal Reasoning with Neural Fuzzy Logic”; emphasized reproducibility and clear experiment documentation. Conducted literature review and proposed an end-to-end extension with evaluation plan.

Education

MEng at University of Toronto
September 1, 2024 - December 1, 2025
Honours BSc in Computer Science at University of Alberta
September 1, 2020 - May 1, 2024

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Software & Internet, Professional Services