Mengke Lian
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMengke Lian is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production-scale machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and a broad technical foundation across ECE, math, statistics, and CS, cultivated through ~30 graduate courses and deep research in information theory, high-dimensional statistics, statistical physics, and deep learning. At Google he has focused on algorithm design and high-performance ML systems to improve prediction accuracy, training speed, and resource efficiency for large-scale advertising models. Prior roles include ML engineering work addressing conversion modeling under privacy-driven data loss and internships applying LDPC/ECC and aerial-image segmentation with deep learning. He pairs rigorous theoretical insight with practical system-building, often translating statistical physics and coding-theory ideas into scalable algorithms. Based in Durham, NC, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to production problems, optimizing both models and the infrastructure that trains them.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at Duke UniversityMaster's degree, Telecommunications Technology/Technician, Master's degree, Telecommunications Technology/Technician at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Harbin Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (60)
sublime-text10
sublime10
textmate10
sublime-text-plugin10
player9
baidu8
latex8
jupyter7
javascript7
visualization7
mpv7
aria27
alfred-workflow7
python7
macos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Joshua1989/Personalize-Your-SublimeText-for-Latex
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Joshua1989/LLSIF-AutoTeamBuilder
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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