Summary
Danchen Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building personalized shopping recommendations on Google Shopping. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing & Information with deep expertise in data reliability assessment, information retrieval, machine learning, text mining, and NLP, which he applies to large-scale recommendation and search problems. His background blends academic research and teaching at the University of Pittsburgh with hands-on engineering internships and multi-year roles at Google and Facebook, giving him a rare mix of theoretical rigor and production experience. Based in Mountain View, he’s known for translating complex research into robust systems that improve user relevance and trust in search and ads.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
exchange undergraduate student Department of Information Management, exchange undergraduate student Department of Information Management at Yuan-Ze University
Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University
Bachelor's degree Computer Software, Bachelor's degree Computer Software at Nanchang University
PhD degree Computing & Information, PhD degree Computing & Information at University of Pittsburgh
Chinese, English