Summary
Weiqi Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 12 years of engineering experience and eight years focused on Google Ads systems. At Google he designs and optimizes ads auction, pricing, and revenue mechanisms for YouTube Ads and has built infrastructure for App Promotion Ads, conversion measurement, and ads serving. His background spans bid optimization for Search, ML-driven anti-fraud work, and reinforcement-learning solutions for autonomous vehicle data labeling, reflecting a strong mix of systems, algorithms, and applied ML. He holds an MS in Computer Science (AI) from UC San Diego and a BS from Southeast University, and is known for turning complex auction-theoretic problems into scalable production systems. An interesting thread across his career is applying academic algorithmic ideas—like influence maximization and RL—to practical, high-throughput ad products.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
No.1 High School of Guiyang
University of California, San Diego
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Southeast University
English, Chinese