Yuduo Zhou
Head Of Engineering, AI Safety & Emerging Product Safety at TikTok
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuduo Zhou is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building large-scale, safety-critical systems across Google and TikTok, now heading AI Safety & Emerging Product Safety in Mountain View. He combines deep backend and full-stack experience—designing billion-user pipelines and unified attachment backends at Google—with a focus on responsible AI development, moderation frameworks, and youth protections at planet scale. Known for turning data-intensive problems into reliable, maintainable platforms, he has repeatedly launched complex products under tight timelines and scaled services to global audiences. His work blends academic rigor from degrees at University of Chicago and Indiana University with pragmatic operational know-how, and he often brings research-grade distributed systems thinking to product safety engineering. An understated strength is his ability to translate safety policy needs into robust engineering architectures that balance user trust, integrity, and scalable performance.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Technology at Tongji UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Informatics and Computing, Master of Science (MS), Informatics and Computing at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Chicago
English, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (2)
yuduozhou/LeetCode
Sep 2012 - Apr 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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