Education

M.S. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Aug. 2024 – Dec. 2025 (expected)
B.Eng. in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sept. 2018 – June 2022

Publications & Preprints

Ziyao Mou, Andrea Wynn, Eric Nalisnick. Learning to Defer under Expert Drift.(Under Review) [pdf].

Work experience

Software Development Engineer
Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · Alibaba Group, Taobao Search Team
Led full-stack development of Taobao’s AI-powered shopping assistant, delivering a cross-platform UI with intelligent features such as product comparison, recommendations, and travel planning.

Software Development Engineer
Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · Alibaba Group, Platform Infrastructure Team
Built a user experience reporting & telemetry platform that ingests multimedia feedback and logs, with a BERT-based sentiment clustering pipeline and screenshot similarity detection.

Software Development Engineer Intern
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · Alibaba Group, Buyer Base Link Team
Designed and implemented an edge-computing streaming rendering full-stack architecture using Serverless technologies to improve responsiveness on low-end and older devices.

Teaching

Course Assistant
Machine Learning: Artificial Intelligence System Design and Development, Fall 2025 · Johns Hopkins University

Skills

Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese.

Programming: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL, TypeScript, HTML/CSS.

Cloud & DevOps: AWS (S3, Lambda), Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes.

Machine Learning & Data: PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn.

Tools & Version Control: Git.