CV
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Contact Information
| Name | Yan Zhou (Terry) |
| terryzhou [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu | |
| Location | Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| GitHub | https://github.com/tz1211 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/yan-zhou-a9085b256/ | |
| Google Scholar | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xQyGSIsAAAAJ |
Education
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Sep 2025 - May 2027 Cambridge, US
Master of Science
Harvard University
Data Science
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Sep 2022 - Jun 2025 London, UK
Bachelor of Science
London School of Economics and Political Science
Politics and Data Science
Experience
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Jun 2026 - Present Cambridge, US
Researcher
CRISP Group, Kempner Institute at Harvard
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Nov 2025 - Present Cambridge, US
Researcher
ML Foundations Group, Harvard SEAS
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Sep 2025 - Present Cambridge, US
Researcher
AI4LIFE Group, Harvard SEAS
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Sep 2025 - Nov 2025 Cambridge, US
Technical Member
Harvard AI Safety Student Team, Harvard SEAS
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Jun 2024 - Jun 2025 London, UK
Research Assistant
Data Science Institute, LSE
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Jun 2023 - Oct 2024 London, UK
Research Assistant
Data Science Institute, LSE
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Apr 2023 - Apr 2024 London, UK
Data Science Intern
The Tecsa Group
Skills
Programming Languages: Python (Advanced), R (Advanced), Typescript (Beginner), SQL
Machine Learning: PyTorch, Transformers, Huggingface, Scikit-learn
ML Engineering / Infrastructure: vLLM, Finetuning, Model Distillation, Quantization, Agents, OpenAI API, RAG, Vector Databases, MongoDB, Neo4j, Docker, Kubernetes, Weights & Biases, Git, CI/CD, FastAPI, GCP, AWS, Slurm
Data & Visualization: NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, Jupyter
Languages
English : Native/Bilingual
Chinese : Native/Bilingual
Spanish : Intermediate