Hongyi Zhang

Research Scientist, Monetization GenAI, Bytedance Inc
Joined
October 2017

Names

Hongyi Zhang

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
, 
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@bytedance.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist
Monetization GenAI, Bytedance Inc (bytedance.com)
2019 – Present
PhD student
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2013 – 2019
Research Intern
Facebook AI Research, Facebook (fb.com)
2018 – 2018
Research intern
Facebook AI Research, Facebook (fb.com)
2017 – 2017
Undergrad student
Machine Intelligence, Peking University (pku.edu)
2009 – 2013
Research intern
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (ttic.edu)
2012 – 2012

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Suvrit Sra
2015 – 2018

Expertise

multimodal foundation models
, 
embodied AI
, 
grounding
2024 – 2025
large language models
, 
post-training
, 
data curation
, 
alignment
2023 – 2025
recommender systems
, 
computational advertising
, 
auto-bidding
2019 – 2025
representation learning
, 
self-supervised learning
, 
data augmentation
2017 – 2025

Publications

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Co-Authors

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