# Michael(Qijia) Zhou > Dreamer, Learner and Doer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelqijia http://michaelzhou.me ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Google Jan 2021 – Present | New York, New York, United States Google Ads Data Toolings, Pipelines, Coverage, Insights, Reliability and ML experiments ### Software Engineer III @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York ### Software Engineer @ WeRide.ai Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California Worked on self-driving car onboard infrastructure (1/3 founding infra engineers): - JCON language tokenizer, parser & evaluator (Python) - JCON v2 Configuration system (C++ Meta-programming) - MPI (Mileage Per Interaction) Data Pipeline (C++, Python, SQL, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Django, React) - Onboard sensor fusion node (C++) - Continuous Integration(CI), Bazel support, codes refactoring, script tools, Docker support ### Research Assistant @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California Researched on generative model especially variants of GANs. Working with Dr. Nitin Kamra on generative model experiments. ### Research Assistant @ University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles, California Developed models to help research on relationship between the financial articles and stock market ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California - Tensorflow Contributor r1.7.0 - infra and tooling for Google Ads Serving team ### Research Assistant @ Zhejiang University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China • shotVis: Established a knowledge base with ProbCog(Alchemy based) and independently developed a system to recommend(Markov Logic Network) and implement(ECharts) optimal visualization for a specific table • Challenging and brand new topic which means coming up with original idea without any reference, setting up own dataset(no existing dataset), analyzing and extracting table features, reasoning and visualizing. • Demo: https://youtu.be/mIcvL13Smm4 • HINs on Github: Ranked Github users with Heterogeneous Information Networks(HINs) constructed on 500000+ pieces of Github user and repository data • Compared with PageRank, HINs showed both higher precision and recall rate over Github community data ### Software Engineer Intern @ Jiangsu Wutong Communications Co., Ltd Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai City, China • Search Engine Marketing Tool: Collaborated in a team of two to develop an ads marketing tool which implements concurrent online management, market data monitoring, job scheduling, database integration and user interface on Google AdWords and Bing Ads. • Aimed to develop a unified tool to meet kinds of ads operation demands • This tool is now used by tens of operating stuff. • ERPC: Implemented a real-time service to predict the revenue of a specific ads keyword based on random forest • Trained an ads keyword classifier and added the semantic-based feature to ERPC. Precision increased by 8% • Avoided unnecessary loss significantly by filtering some bad ads keywords out ### Software Engineer Intern @ Qingmedia Co., Ltd Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China • Designed and implemented web UI for management system with Laravel ### Co-Founder @ 郁林ELINC Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Established ELINC with Pei Huang to help on-campus students who are planning to study abroad to apply for overseas university/college. Cooperated with New Channel International Education Group, New Oriental Education and Technology Group, Shineway Education and other education institutes to help students with English examinations, application materials and information gathering. ### Chief Editor @ Chengdu No.7 High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Chengdu, Sichuan, China Led to publish the school magazine "Future Dream" 20th & 21st edition. I am also the chief editor and magazine manager to firstly introduce ads sponsorship inside the magazine and extend magazines markets to high schools at Chengdu. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Zhejiang University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Sciences Chengdu NO.7 High School 成都市第七中学 Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/qijia-zhou --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelqijia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelqijia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22