# Liang Chen

> Building Marketing AI Agents

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

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ MAI Agents
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
ML modeling for service options, pricing and growth systems.

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer II @ Instacart
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Tech lead for ETA options ML modeling at Instacart: Ranking models for optimizing user growth and marketplace efficiency.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
Tech lead for intent-based search ads targeting. Led the team to build ads performance models for targeting products; delivered 1B incremental ads revenue per year.

### Software Development Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
Individual contributor to multiple ML models in search ads quality:

- User task state model for ads personalization (across targeting and bidding), contributing to ~0.5B incremental ads revenue per year.
- User-intent-based ad keywords retrieval, contributing to ~2B incremental ads revenue per year.
- User intent coverage optimization model to jointly optimize recommendation relevance and diversity. Launched the model across multiple Google surfaces, e.g. shopping emails and chrome new-tab page.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View
Full stack engineering in Google Analytics


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington

### Master in Computer Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences

### Bachelor in Microelectronics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liangchen0625

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Last updated: 2026-04-05