Nan Hua
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Hua is a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience building large-scale systems, currently leading work on YouTube Shopping Ads Video Generation. With a PhD in Computational Biology and an MS in Computer Science from USC, she blends deep research expertise with practical production engineering across advertising and multimedia. Her career path—from graduate research fellowships and visiting scholar roles to successive engineering promotions at Google—reflects a strong ability to translate academic rigor into scalable product features. Colleagues describe her as a technically curious engineer who moves fluidly between modeling, systems design, and applied ML. An unexpected detail: her academic roots in biotechnology inform a data-driven, experimental approach to problem solving that complements her product-focused impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biotechnology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (7)
sparse8
file-format8
python-bindings7
genomics7
bioinformatics7
python5
tex1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ursinedeity/alab
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
alberlab/pgs
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 91 commits, 81 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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