# Zhuo Z. > Software Engineer at Google Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zhuoz ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ YouTube Jan 2021 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States As the Modeling and Ranking Tech Lead, I drive the strategy and execution for the Recommendation Systems and Discovery Experience across Community Products (including Posts, Communities, and Comments). My core focus is ensuring the performance, quality, and reliability of user-facing ranking models to deliver better user experience on YouTube. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States * Founding Lead Engineer for the Google Ads Data-Driven Attribution (DDA) Model. * Designed and built the scalable machine learning framework that powers cross-surface (Search, Display, YouTube) attribution. * Mentored engineers and data scientists to deliver solutions that led to X% Google revenue growth. * Winner of Google Ads High Impact Award (H2 2021). ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Southern California Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Biostatistics University of Southern California ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Science - BS Nanjing University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhuo--zhang --- Source: https://flows.cv/zhuoz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zhuoz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12