Summary
Ning Zhou is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading applied AI and computer vision teams across Google and Amazon, currently building Generative AI products for cloud customers at Google. Previously at Amazon she led a 50+ person applied science organization shaping AI strategy and delivering tens of millions of customer-facing launches for Ring, Blink, and Echo devices, and was technical lead for the Astro robotics perception roadmap. Her background spans industrial and research settings (GE, Microsoft) where she shipped CV/ML systems that influenced product lines and corporate strategy, including work highlighted in Microsoft’s Build keynote. Ning pairs deep technical expertise from a PhD track with strong people leadership—coaching senior ICs, scaling career frameworks, and expanding international talent pipelines. She brings a rare combination of hands-on perception research and large-scale product execution, now focused on translating generative models into cloud-scale, production-ready features.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Fudan University
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen University
English, Chinese