# Vanessa Lin

> Software Engineer @ Google

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vanessalin

Software Engineer with experience in applied genAI and ML ⌨️.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Consumer Verticals on Search (People, TV & Movies, Video Games)

Play Ads Quality

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, CA
• Building a user-facing query API for a video database management system that makes use of TASM (a tile-based storage manager for visual analytics) with Maureen Daum, Brandon Haynes, and Prof. Alvin Cheung
• Exploring recurrent neural networks and stability under postdoctoral fellow, N. Benjamin Erichson, and Prof. Michael Mahoney

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
• Build upon an ongoing research project (E-mission) which displays travel patterns and experiences to promote sustainable transportation, under the supervision of K.Shankari PhD, Prof. Randy Katz, and Prof. David Culler

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Built a DNN and a logistic regression model with Keras to perform binary classification to help advertisers better understand their advertisements’ effectiveness and recommend improvements, as part of Google Search Ads
• Constructed a parallel data-processing pipeline, using a Map Reduce service and C++, to generate ground truth data

### Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Developed a hotel cancellation feature in which users will be able to use for Book on Google (Google Hotels), which is a platform that facilitates hotel booking on Google without breaking the search flow
• Facilitated the process of hotel cancellation for users by constructing a server to manage the transfer of information between a user’s cancellation request to cancelling the booking through partner APIs, using Java and Google Web Server

### R&D Year-Round Software Developer Intern @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Livermore, CA
Project on Nuclear Gaming
• Developed a data collection web application for the game SIGNAL (https://pong.berkeley.edu/e-game/) for proctors to input data collected from board game rounds
• Built interactive web application using React and MongoDB that keeps track of cards that users have selected and the currency of each player
• Used to record data of 15 games (45 players) to facilitate analysis of understanding nuclear deterrence and conflict escalation

### R&D Summer Software Developer Intern @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Livermore, CA
Capabilities Development Framework (a WebGIS application)
• Added capabilities to the app for the Department of Homeland Security, using OpenLayers, GeoServer, SQL, JavaScript, and PHP, to incorporate live data-streaming with temperature data

### CS 61A (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
• Assisted in labs and office hours for 3 hours per week as a part of course staff of CS 61A (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)
• Answered questions on projects, homework, and labs

### Research Intern @ Boston University College of Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
• Looked for ways to improve the quality of record-and-replay devices with Professor Ayse K. Coskun, Matthias Büchler, PhD, and Cyril Saade
• Evaluated a computer program’s (RERAN) playback capabilities under different conditions through over 50 mobile applications
• Focus on understanding the issues that cause replay tools to suffer from issues that hinder their ability in replaying touch-screen actions
• Built an Android application using Android Studio as a proof of concept to this study

### Research Intern @ University of Iowa
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Iowa City, Iowa Area
• Found early human pregnancy bio-markers of preeclampsia with Professor Mark Santillan, Professor Donna Santillan, and Sabrina Scroggins, PhD
• Investigated differences in urinary IL-6 protein levels in a cohort of pregnant women and if the IL-6 levels would be associated with poor obstetric
outcomes


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/valin1

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Last updated: 2026-03-22