# Victoria Wu

> CS, AI, Econ @ Stanford | SWE II @ Microsoft

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/victoriawu1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States
Cloud & AI, CoreAI (Copilot, AI Tools) team - working on building new AI models from scratch to support BIC! LLMs, agents, o1, gen AI... and more! Exciting stuff :) 
- GenAI CC POC, Knowledge source integration

Previously: Cloud & AI, Dataverse Core Lifecycle Team - Organization Provisioning, Dynamics CRM, Apollo/Pegasus/Chronus

### Research Assistant, Autonomous Systems Laboratory @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2025 – Present
Soft robotics - under Prof. Marco Pavone and PhD Roberto Sabella

### Course Assistant, CS230: Deep Learning @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Under Prof. Andrew Ng and Prof. Kian Katanforoosh

### Community Outreach, Executive Board @ Girls Teaching Girls to Code
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Stanford, California, United States
Organizing nation-wide tech workshops, career panels, tutoring; supporting high school girls in CS

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Cloud&AI, Apollo Dataverse Lifecycle Team; worked on global first-class user-facing operation, affecting >5000 environments in SE Asia region alone; private preview anticipated in October 2023

### Software Engineer & Product Manager Intern, Explore @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Building upon existing virtual connector provider (VCP), provided support for disparate Dataverse instance connections; prototyping/iterations/PM specs/XR doc; coding in C#, CRUD operation support, entity catalog generation, virtual entity generation, Aurora 365 On-Prem virtual machine/DnSpy debugging, APIs/APIMs

### Software Engineer Intern @ Future AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Spokane, Washington, United States
Artificial intelligence in C#

### Top Emerging Talent, Software Developer @ Pangea.app
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Computational + Materials Research Assistant @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
Working with Prof. Felipe Jornada to compute the tunability of h-BN; utilization of Pymoire/LAMMPS/Jupyter kernel/Quantum ESPRESSO compilation on supercomputer NERSC Cori nodes

### Product Manager Intern @ BarGlance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
React Native/UI, UX optimization/Google Firebase

### Software Engineer Intern @ We Care Insurance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### NLP Research Assistant @ Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
Utilization of NLTK, spaCy, Voyant, Tableau, and PhiloLogic4 to analyze VOC archival records

### Web Application Developer @ USA for UNHCR
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
R Shiny application, OFM filtering with live counts of personalized donor characteristics; processed for full integration with Civis for SOC 2 Type II-certification and HIPAA-compliancy

### Data Science Fellow @ Stanford Open Data Project
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
Python pandas/web scraping/mining

### Viktor Zhdanov Global Development Fellow @ One for the World
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States
Effective altruism/utilitarian economics/human rights via rigorous case studies

### Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council (SSAC) @ Rockford Public Schools
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Rockford, Illinois, United States
The SSAC is a group of 15 students chosen on the basis of academic excellence, leadership, intellectual vitality, and dedication to community that meets twice monthly with a goal of encouraging goodwill, leadership and unity among RPS 205 students and the district. Students focus on positive aspects of RPS 205, increasing community service within the district, and improving collaboration with the schools, administration and community.​

Community projects:
- Worked with Washington Elementary School to provide homemade birthday cards for residents at the Alden Park Strathmore Rehabilitation and Health Center (150 cards made in total)
- Organized a Senior Prom for residents at Wesley Willows: Senior Living Communities, offering a chance to recreate one of the most memorable evenings of their youth
- Hosted a district-wide high school dodgeball tournament (50+ participants)
- Arrange annual district-wide talent shows, featuring special judges in the area
- Participated in the toy drive for children at Mercyhealth for Christmas ($200+ in toys donated)
- Acted as guides for students at the district Academy Expo (300-400 freshman in total)
- Campaigned for the annual RPS205 Salvation Army food drive (collected 10K+ lb of canned goods)

### Independent Researcher @ Rockford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Independent research project exploring own historical roots as Chinese-American under the mentorship of Dr. Forslund of Rockford University. 
- Delved into the assimilation of Asian-Americans—from undesirable aliens to actively valued participants of American society.
- Used resources provided by both Rockford University and Harvard University to conduct qualitative meta-analysis
- Wrote 21pg research paper on findings of model minority myth implications

### Reading and Math Tutor @ Kumon North America, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Instructed students aged 5-18 in Reading and Math
- Graded the work of 40+ students per week 
- Taught 5+ students/night on a one-to-one basis


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Stanford University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Economics
Stanford University

### Visiting Scholar in Behavioral Economics
University of Oxford

### Gifted Program
Auburn High School

### Harvard Secondary School Program
Harvard University

### Northwestern University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01