# Cong Li

> Software Engineer at Tencent America

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/congli

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tencent America
Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the development of Neural Network based recommendation models for many Google products, including Search, Play, YouTube, etc.

Led the development of an automated Neural Network model generation system for recommendation problems. Successfully deployed in 10+ products.

Led the development of high quality embeddings and the corresponding large scale embedding productionization infrastructure for the most major data sources in Google. Successfully used by 200+ teams.

Led the development and open-source of the first on-device recommendation model solution in the industry.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA
Worked with Machine Intelligence team on personalized prediction system.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA
Worked with Ads:Shopping:In-store team on user query local intent project.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
University of Central Florida

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electronic Information Engineering
Tianjin University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics
Tianjin University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cong-li-1092762b

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Last updated: 2026-04-11