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Leon Ziyang Zhang

     Software Engineer at Google

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    Email: leonzz AT mikreal DOT com

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I received my Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014, under the supervision of Dr. Ling Guan, and Dr. Tim McInerney, with a focus on research and development of HCI (Human Computer Interface), Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality system and applications.

I also received a Master of Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, in 2021, with an emphisis in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE).

Experiences

As Software Engineer:

04/2020 - Present, Google, Google Cloud Platform, GKE/Anthos
12/2017 - 04/2020, Royal Bank of Canada, API Platform.
Lead a squad that designs & builds an automated service publishing system for the banks's developer portal, in the API Platform team in RBC Technology & Operations; Also help designing an ecosystem of secure financial APIs.
10/2015 - 12/2017, IBM, Cloud Innovation Lab.
Worked on IBM's next generation IaaS cloud platform: API layer automation & code generation framework that successfully served 100+ developers; Lead an effort of designing a monitoring & event system that powers auto scaling.

Fun Initiative:

Co-Funder, Mikreal Inc. ARRO: In car turn-by-turn navigation with Augmented Reality.

Academic:

09/2012 - 10/2015, Ryserson University, Ryerson Multimedia Lab.

Publications

Ziyang Zhang, Tsung Ting Chen, Kapil Vigneswaren, Fatima Hussain, Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferworn, Automated Generation and Dynamic Rendering of Web-based Data Collection Systems, IEEE IEMCON, October 2019.
Ziyang Zhang, Tim McInerney, Ning Zhang, Ling Guan, A Cave Based 3D Immersive Interactive City With Gesture Interface, 22nd WSCG International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, June 2014.
Yifeng He, Ziyang Zhang, Xiaoming Nan, etc., vConnect: Connect the Real World to the Virtual World, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications. (CIVEMSA 2014)
Xiaoming Nan, Ziyang Zhang, Ning Zhang, Fei Guo, Yifeng He, and Ling Guan, vDesign: a CAVE-based virtual design environment using hand interactions, Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2014.
Ziyang Zhang and Kaamran Raahemifar, Combined Dictionary Learning in Facial Expression Recognition, Journal of Signal and Information Processing (Open Access) , (Course Project for EE8120, Fall 2012)
Xiaoming Nan, Ziyang Zhang, Ning Zhang, Fei Guo, Yifeng He, Ling Guan, VDesign: Toward Image Segmentation and Composition in CAVE Using Finger Interactions, Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), 2013 IEEE China Summit / International Conference on.
Ziyang Zhang, Xiaomin Mu and Lei Gao, Recognizing Facial Expressions Based on Gabor Filter Selection, Proceedings of 2011 4th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP).
Review Report: Image-based Rendering - A Brief Review and Study Notes, August, 2013.

Selected Awards and Honors

06/2016, IBM Cloud Innovation Lab Value Award
05/2014, Esch Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards, Ryerson University
04/2014, Graduate Research Excellence Award, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ryerson University
09/2013, Ontario Graduate Scholarship (as International Student)
07/2010, Championship in National Robot Competition of China (Ordos)
11/2010, National Scholarship of China
10/2010, Third Prize in MEMS Sensor Application Competition of China (Wuxi)
11/2009, Zhengzhou University Outstanding Student Scholarship

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Last Update: July 2021