Zifan Jiang

Live in Zurich; used to live in Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing; born in Kunshan, China.

A researcher, an engineer, a backpacker, a gamer.

Four cultures shape the adult me, I will write about them at some point.

Experiences

Skills

  • Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native), Wu Chinese (native), English (C1), German (B1), American Sign Language (A1)
  • Programming Languages: JavaScript, Python, Java, C/C++, LaTeX
  • Tools: Macbook Pro, Chrome, iTerm, VS Code, Git/GitHub
  • Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vison, Data Science

Trips

I have travelled to many places since I started backpacking in 19. I wrote about and linked my favourite destinations such as Tibet and Turkey, and some other good memories are presented in my wife's Instagram stories. I actually liked all the trips because otherwise I would not have kept going here and there. Wish to write them all.

- North America (road trip)

  • 2024: Miami and the Key West

- Europe (road trip)

  • 2025: England, Wales, Iceland
  • 2024: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece (Corfu), Italy (Matera, East Coast)
  • 2023: Montenegro, Greece (Crete, Meteora, Thessaloniki)
  • 2022: Spain & Portugal (Iberian Peninsula), South Italy (Sicily), Spain (the Pyrenees, the Basque Country)
  • 2021: Northern and Central Italy (West Coast), Southern France
  • 2020: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece (Athens, Peloponnese)
  • 2019: Switzerland (the Alps), Netherlands, Belgium
  • 2017: Turkey (West Coast, Cappadocia)

- (South) East Asia (backpacking)

  • 2023: Singapore
  • 2018: Phuket Island, Jeju Island, Myanmar
  • 2016: Sri Lanka, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture

- China (backpacking, hitchhiking)

  • 2015: Chongqing to Tibet (via G317, G318, G219 until Mount Kailash, Zanda County)
  • 2014: Gansu (Qilian Mountains), Qinghai (Qinghai Lake), Hulunbuir, Guangxi
  • 2013: Jiangxi, Sichuan (G318), Northeast China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin)
  • 2012: Tibet (Mount Everest), Dunhuang & Jiayuguan City (the Silk Road)

Favourites

  • Philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zhuangzi
  • Writers: Milan Kundera, W. Somerset Maugham, Orhan Pamuk, John Wiliams, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Haruki Murakami, Mu Xin
  • Games: Dota2, Braid, Civilization, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
  • Sports: hiking, cycling, swimming, skiing, football, basketball
  • Club: Chelsea F.C.

Links

Posts

Quotes

  • "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ― The Great Gatsby
  • "Know thyself." - Temple of Apollo at Delphi
  • (to be added ...)