Jingran Zhou 周靖然

Work & Experience

Senior ML Engineer building agentic LLM systems, tool-using agents, and evaluation frameworks.

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Work Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Inc. • Siri Core Modeling

Sep 2024 - Present Current
  • Architected a meta-prompting self-improvement engine that turns failure patterns into automated remediation, reducing manual diagnostics and resolution effort by ~85%.
  • Shipped a fault-tolerant Natural-Language-to-Python platform spanning 2,000+ user intents, architecting a multi-stage system of semantic clustering, tool generation, and sandboxed code synthesis.
  • Achieved ~95% tool-calling accuracy on held-out multi-step agentic workflows by developing a rigorous evaluation harness with zero-shot testing, adversarial perturbations, and argument fuzzing.
  • Built a unified evaluation framework with dataset versioning and a metric registry to consolidate disparate data stacks, enabling reproducible, traceable comparisons across all models and agents.

Machine Learning Engineer II

Apple Inc. • AI/ML

Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
  • Improved tool retrieval and query-to-program quality (+10% recall, -30% hallucinations) through RAG, LoRA/SFT on large models, prompt optimization, and user-simulation evals.
  • Pioneered a device-state-driven modeling approach for on-device intelligence, improving accuracy over noisy signals.
  • Increased OS update success rate by +25% by developing time-series forecasting models to smooth peak server loads and reduce resource contention failures.
  • Co-inventor on three U.S. patents covering sensor-driven display power control and predictive energy management used to ship Always-On Display on iPhone 14 Pro.

Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Inc. • CoreOS

Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
  • Built on-device charging models using device-state signals (e.g., usage windows, SoC trajectory) to schedule charge phases under strict privacy constraints.
  • Reduced high-SoC dwell and heat exposure during overnight charging while meeting readiness targets; improved battery-health outcomes without cloud data.
  • Enhanced background scheduling to enable Apple ProRes video on iPhone 13 Pro/Max within power & thermal budgets.

Game Software Engineer

Tencent Holdings Ltd. • Interactive Entertainment Group

Jun - Aug 2019
  • Unity editor tools and real-time inspectors; ~3x designer workflow speed-up; shipped to titles serving 2M+ DAU.

Software Engineer

J.P. Morgan • Corporate & Investment Bank

Jun - Aug 2018
  • Spring Boot/Node.js monitoring for millions of instruments; Oracle SQL optimized ~120s → ~3s; led a 6-person LSTM prototype for predictive monitoring.

Patents & Awards

Patents

  • U.S. Patent No. 12,141,012 - Energy saving for battery powered devices (2024)
  • US20240077929A1 - Sensor-based display power control systems and methods (2024)
  • US20240077930A1 - Predictive display power control systems and methods (2024)

Academic Honors

  • Dean's Honors List, The University of Hong Kong (2015-2019)
  • CLP "Powering a Sustainable Generation" Scholarship (2017)
  • Zhiyuan Scholarship (Soong Ching Ling Foundation) (2015)

Education

University of California, Berkeley

2019 - 2020

M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

GPA: 3.96

The University of Hong Kong

2015 - 2019

B.Eng. in Computer Science (First Class Honors)

Princeton University

2017

Exchange Student in Computer Science

GPA: 4.0

Engineering Philosophy

Build systems that work reliably in the real world. Focus on evaluation, failure modes, and user trust. The most sophisticated agent is worthless if it can't be trusted in production.

Measure what matters. Ship systems that solve actual problems rather than impressing on benchmarks. Good engineering creates value that users can depend on.