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Shuai Zhang
Senior Staff Machine Learning Researcher and Manager, Qualcomm Computer Vision Group. PhD in Mathematics from UC Irvine (2017), advised by Prof. Jack Xin. Research spans on-device agentic AI, segmentation, detection, foundation models, and non-convex optimization for Edge AI.
Senior Staff Engineer & Manager
Qualcomm AI Research · San Diego, CA
Leads the Computer Vision Group. Drives on-device agentic AI pipelines, multi-modal foundation models, and hybrid edge–cloud inference architectures. Organizes LPCVC and co-organizes ECV Workshop at CVPR.
Staff Engineer
Qualcomm · San Diego, CA
Developed mobile-optimized segmentation and detection models. Pioneered efficient neural architecture search and structured pruning techniques.
Senior Engineer
Qualcomm · San Diego, CA
Data Science Intern
Zillow Group · Seattle, WA
Research Intern
Black Knight Financial Services
Ph.D. in Mathematics
2012 – 2017University of California, Irvine
Advisor: Jack Xin · Kovalevsky Outstanding Thesis Award
M.S. in Computational Mathematics
2009 – 2012Shandong University, China
B.S. in Applied Mathematics
2005 – 2009Shandong University, China
IEEE Senior Member
Promoted 2023
2nd Place · Low Latency Classification & Detection
IEEE LPIRC-II, 2018
Kovalevsky Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award
UC Irvine, 2017
SIAM Student Travel Award
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016
Von Neumann Outstanding Research Award
UC Irvine, 2015
National Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate
Ministry of Education, P.R. China, 2007
Industry Panelist — CV4Smalls Workshop (Computer Vision with Small Data), CVPR 2026
Organizer — Low Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCVC)
Co-organizer — Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision (ECV) Workshop, CVPR 2026
Languages: English (full professional) · Chinese (native)