Zhongheng Li

About Zhongheng Li

Software Engineer with full-stack Mobile and Web application development experiences to build enterprise and startup applications from scratch to launch. Currently pursuing the expertise to combine data science, machine learning, AI with Augmented Reality.

Experience

1. Lead Machine Learning Engineer

   STR

   Oct 2025 — Present · Woburn, MA, US

   Spearheaded applied Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) research in multiple crossfunctional Competitive & Collaborative Autonomy and Command and Control (C2) programs funded by DARPA, NAVAIR, and AFRL. Recent success included winning DARPA’s AIR Phase 2 program.Driving engineering and algorithmic efforts for a Large-Language Model (LLM) project to create and deploy a scalable agentic Information Extraction (IE) system using VeRL, LangGraph, pgvector retrieval and open-source LLMs (e.g, Llama 3) for multi-modal news feed IE

Education

• Harvard Extension School

  Robotics, Autonomous Driving and High Fidelity Simulations

• Stony Brook University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Dual Degrees in Information Systems Engineering + Applied Mathematics and Statistics

  2007 — 2012

• Harvard Extension School

  Deep Learning

• NYU Tandon School of Engineering

  Master’s Degree, Computer Science

  2016 — 2018

• Harvard Extension School

  Probabilistic Learning

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• C#
• Bank Reconciliation
• Social Media
• Databases
• Spring Webflow
• Mobile Applications
• Project Management
• Html
• Shell Scripting
• Wordpress
• Programming
• Application Support Management
• Visual Basic
• Oracle Sql
• Technical Analysis
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Graphic Design
• Entrepreneurship
• Salesforce.com
• Web Design
• Unix
• Facebook
• Dreamweaver
• Web Development
• Technical Support
• Business Analysis
• Asp.net Mvc
• Team Leadership
• Creative Problem Solving
• Visual Studio
• Connecting People
• Spring
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Java
• Social Media Marketing
• Data Analysis
• Photography
• Photoshop