# Derek Ren

> Software Engineer at Google

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Multimodal Conversational LLM
- On-device ML
- Payment/Subscription Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Jerry
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Chatbot
- Browser Automation
- Mobile Application

### NLP Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | UCSB
- Designed a textual entailment system checks the validity of a factual claims with PyTorch
- Implemented a document retrieval system with DrQA and Decomposable Attention model with ELMo
- Used Coreference Resolution and Named Entity Recognition on the FEVER dataset to improve the accuracy
- Improved the model’s precision on neutral predictions with data augmentation and ensemble


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science - Machine Learning Track
Columbia University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/guancheng-derek-ren

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Last updated: 2026-03-22