Zhe Li
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhe Li is a Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with 11 years of experience building large-scale deep learning and vision systems, currently leading work on Gemini Embedding for retrieval and RAG. He combines a PhD in Computer Engineering with hands-on production experience across Google Research and Ads, shipping multimodal representation models and lightweight training infrastructure at Google scale. His background spans high-performance computing, model compression, neuromorphic applications and medical imaging—fields where he’s bridged research prototypes into production. Based in Mountain View, he is comfortable both leading data and model efforts and diving into ML infra for fast prototyping and deployment. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner-researcher who translates academic rigor into pragmatic systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunications Engineering at Queen Mary University of London
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (29)
evaluation9
automatic-speech-recognition9
lstm8
audio8
paper8
speech7
ctc7
data-preprocessing7
speech-recognition6
deep-learning6
speech-to-text6
android-ndk5
tensorflow5
dedicated5
syncthing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lz1313/speech
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
lz1313/lz1313.github.io
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
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