About Me

Posted on Mar 22, 2025

Tl;dr:

  • I’m Bill Zhang, Statitics & CS major at UIUC
  • Interested in low level & (scalable) systems, have experience in AI/ML
  • I’ve done internships in the past, but I’m still exploring what I really want to do

Hi!

My name is Bill Zhang! As mentioned on my home page (and above), I am currently a senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) studying Statistics & CS , a single blended degree where I take the core classes from both the Statistics sequence and the Computer Science sequence–still leaving left over time to take whatever electives I want in either field.

Throughout my years of colleges, I gained experience in multiple disciplines of computing. Right now, I have the most experience in AI/ML, systems, and backend, but theres many other fields I want to explore. I am quite interested in anything scalable—especially if its for AI/ML. Another one of my interests is writing code for low-latency or big data applications, such as high frequency trading. Currently, I’m still exploring what I really want to do.

Although I’m super passionate about CS, I enjoy photography, playing badminton, biking, and urban exploration in my free time.

Work Experience

  • Meta : Incoming Software Engineer Intern | May 25 - Aug 25
  • Capital One : Machine Learning Intern (Tech Incubator ) | Sep 24 - Mar 25
    IFX APEX Recommendation Team
    • Worked on engineering and optimizing a pipeline to generate multimodal embeddings to increase accuracy of a previously single-modal transformer recommedation system, while training models to determine their effectiveness
  • CME Group : Software Engineer Intern | May 24 - Aug 24
    Enterprise Credit Controls Team
    • Refactored a distributed credit processing application to remove Redis and Consul external dependencies, preparing the team to migrate to Google Cloud, allowing us to utilize more parallel instances and implement an auto-scaling mode
  • Milliman : Software Developer Intern | May 23 - Aug 23
    M-PIRe Platform Team
    • Modernized and parallelized a testing system that validates loan prediction models on various classes of inputs, and developed an automated API testing pipeline