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Contact Information

Name Huang Shijie
Professional Title Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba
Email nicolaus.huang@outlook.com

Professional Summary

Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba, working on the Qwen app. Former MSc in Data Science and Machine Learning at the National University of Singapore. Research interests in diffusion models, deep learning, and web development.

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Hangzhou

    Algorithm Engineer
    Alibaba
    Working on the Qwen app. Engineering in data pipeline, implemented instant cross-modal retrieval engine and de-duplication over 6B image data. Contributed in the image captioning, score filtering and world-knowledge re-balancing. Contributed in model application & post-training side, including the LoRA-tuning, tool-using, prompt-enhancer, user intent analysis and few-steps distillation, model quantization and deployment, etc. Contributed to data section in Z-image and one paper submitted in CVPR 2026.
  • 2025 - 2025

    Singapore

    Video Generation Engineer Intern
    HPC AI TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Startup)
    Engineered in the Open-Sora project as an intern, optimized the data processing pipeline, training infrastructure and inference engine, contributed inference scaling section in the tech report of Open-Sora 2.0.
  • 2024 - 2025

    Shanghai

    AIGC Algorithm Engineer Intern
    Tiamat AI (Startup)
    Conducted research to meet business needs, built models for characterized image generation and story telling, built large-scale data-processing cluster using Ray. Contributed one ICCV paper and one SIGGRAPH Asia paper.

Education

  • 2023 - 2025

    Singapore

    Msc
    National University of Singapore
    Data Science and Machine Learning
  • 2019 - 2023

    Shandong

    BS
    Shandong University
    Statistics (Data Science and Artificial Intelligence)

Awards

  • 2023
    4th Place, ADA Business Messaging Hackathon
  • 2022
    Second Prize Winner, Asian Collegiate Supercomputer Competition (ASC)
  • 2022
    Silver Medalist, The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
  • 2021
    First Prize Winner, National University Students' Math Modeling Competition

Skills

Languages: Python, C++, SQL, C, JavaScript
Skills: Diffusion models, Deep Learning, Web Development, Hardware Development

Publications

  • 2025
    Z-Image: An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer
  • 2025
    Live avatar: Streaming real-time audio-driven avatar generation with infinite length
  • 2025
    Arteditor: Learning customized instructional image editor from few-shot examples
  • 2025
    Open-sora 2.0: Training a commercial-level video generation model in $200k
  • 2024
    ProcessPainter: Learning to draw from sequence data

Interests

AI System Engineering: Diffusion Models, Multimodal Learning, Video Generation, AI System Engineering
Strategic Games: Strategy, Game Theory, Game Design, Game Development
Writing: Writing, Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction
Reading: Reading, Books, Literature, Fiction

Certificates

  • Class C1 Motor Vehicle Driving License

References

  • Available upon request