Summary
Susan Xu is a senior software engineer at Google with a decade of experience building large-scale ML systems that combine NLP and computer vision for Google Maps, spanning model development, data acquisition, GPU/TPU acceleration, and production inference over billions of images and texts. A Harvard CS graduate with Highest Honors and prior research at the Harvard NLP lab, she has published work on reducing gender bias in machine translation and brings rigorous research-to-production instincts. Skilled in C++, Python, TensorFlow, and SQL, she has repeatedly owned end-to-end projects from design doc to deployment and monitoring. Susan’s background also includes teaching core CS courses and practical product work—from front-end React redesigns to launching a Django ambassador portal—reflecting a rare mix of deep technical expertise and user-facing product impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors at Harvard University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kingwood High School
English, Chinese