BOYA ZHANG

EXPERIENCE
September 2025 – Present
Toronto, Canada

Robotics Software Lead

University of Toronto Underwater Exploration Team

  • Lead a team of eight software engineers developing adaptive control, localization, and path planning algorithms for autonomous underwater drone navigation.
  • Collaborate with electrical and mechanical subteams to integrate sensors, actuators, and power management systems with a Raspberry Pi and flight controller.
  • Own software architecture decisions and sprint planning across the team, coordinating module interfaces to keep integration on schedule for internal deadlines.
May 2025 – August 2025
Bangkok, Thailand

Machine Learning Researcher

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

  • Co-authored a publication at the IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
  • Designed a parameter-efficient latent diffusion architecture achieving 220× parameter reduction and 52× faster inference than SOTA while maintaining generation quality.
  • Built a large-scale audio data pipeline (431 hours) including scraping, preprocessing, encoding, and distributed training using PyTorch and Google Colab.
  • Conducted architectural ablations and performance benchmarking to analyze efficiency–quality trade-offs.
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