Hongyi Zhang

Research Scientist, Monetization GenAI, Bytedance Inc

  • Joined October 2017

Names

Hongyi Zhang

Emails

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

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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
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