# Ren Zhang

> Software Engineer at Google - Search Ranking

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/renzhang

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## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Work on building, experimenting, and serving ML models for query understanding, retrieval, and relevance ranking in Google Search.

### Lead Data Scientist - Machine Learning @ NielsenIQ
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
+ System design, project lead and mentoring

### Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning @ NielsenIQ
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Needham, MA
Machine learning for forecasting, analytical solution engineering at BASES.

### Data Scientist - Data Engineering @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Various projects at IBM Watson Health.

### Research Assistant @ Bentley University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waltham, Massachusetts
Babaian T., Zhang R., Lucas W. (2017) DTMi – A New Interface for Informed Navigation. In: Kurosu M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Contexts. HCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10272. Springer, Cham

We are looking for collaboration: http://cis.bentley.edu/realviz/people.html

### Data Science @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Smithfield, Rhode Island
Interned at Fidelity's Consumer Knowledge and Strategic Insights team.


## Education
### Master’s in Business Analytics, Data Science
Bentley University

### Master's in Library and Information Science
Jiangsu University

### Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature
Soochow University (CN)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhangrenryan
- Portfolio: https://ryanzhang.info

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Last updated: 2026-03-31