# Cynthia Liang > SWE @ Google | CS @ Stanford Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cynthialiang Stanford Class of 2021; M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Symbolic Systems. Background in human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence work. Visit cynthialiang.com for more information. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Present ### C20 Fellow @ Contrary Jan 2020 – Present Selected to be a 2020 Contrary Talent Fellow. Contrary Talent is a select, diverse community of the top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds working in technology. Members get lifetime access to exclusive job opportunities, funding when they start companies, mentorship from industry leaders, and much more. ### Engineering Intern @ Infinitus Systems, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Worked on conversational AI + human-computer interaction projects at Infinitus (https://infinitus.ai) to lower healthcare costs and ensure patients get access to care faster. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States Worked on computation system feature for billions of advertisements to prevent abuse from advertisers. Massively parallelized metrics collection for 45 million+ daily advertisement reviews. ### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 https://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/meet-the-fellows/2020/engineering Selected as 1 of 69 engineering fellows out of 3000+ applications. Formerly signed with Ubiquity6, one of their partner companies, before COVID. The KPCB fellowship program gives college students a chance to intern at one of its portfolio companies, while providing a string of exclusive events and unfettered access to the firm’s leadership team. ### Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Chrome Usable Security team member; Chromium contributor; Primary for security review. Automated tests for common spoofing vulnerabilities of URL display surfaces, helping protect 1+ billion Google Chrome users. Tool automated: github.com/chromium/trickuri Independently designed, prototyped, and implemented a novel way to automatically generate potential phishing sites using optical character recognition AI. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford HCI Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Stanford, CA Human-computer interaction research assistant under Stanford professor James Landay. Researched and prototyped an Amazon Alexa skill to encourage interactive comprehension and empathy skills for children in the car. ### Software Engineering Intern @ AMD Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area Co-op software engineer as part of a core team developing Direct3D (D3D) drivers for AMD desktop and mobile graphics systems. Worked on AMD's D3D driver and Platform Abstraction Library so they would be able to render proposed Windows graphics features, internally track heap memory usage, and be compatible with current updates. Created tests to determine interoperability of Microsoft DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 systems. ### College Guidance Consultant, Tutor @ Top 1 Education Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Edison, New Jersey Coached 5 students one-on-one for the college application process, Algebra II, the ACT, and SAT subject tests. Created template database for the company’s college application information. ### Research Intern @ Rutgers University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Piscataway, New Jersey Wrote code developing and implementing a pipeline to analyze next-generation sequencing data for multiplex families. Identified causal genes for inherited disorders. Received 1st place in Bioinformatics, 2nd place in Human Genetics at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair (affiliated with Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Nokia Bell Labs, Society for Science & the Public). Wrote "Identifying Genes Causing Tourette Syndrome Using Whole Exome Sequencing": 18-page bioinformatics research project and paper; documents process and conclusion from a search for rare causal variants in a multiplex family affected with Tourette Syndrome and similar tic disorders, filtered for highly segregating, neurologic-related, and disease-related genes, confirmed with Sanger sequencing. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Symbolic Systems Stanford University Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### North Brunswick Township High School Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liangcyn --- Source: https://flows.cv/cynthialiang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cynthialiang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22