Zhen Zhu
Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead Manager at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhen Zhu is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager in San Jose with a decade of experience building large-scale systems that blend machine learning and heuristic algorithms to improve web index quality at Google. He leads a team of ~10 engineers, architecting agents and workflows that orchestrate complex web indexing pipelines and applying ML at scale across crawling, processing, and serving. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from Michigan State, Zhen brings deep computational and research rigor from prior work discovering thousands of 2D materials and publishing influential studies on phosphorene. Before Google he engineered backend systems for semiconductor tooling at ASML and developed high-throughput materials-screening pipelines during his academic career, reflecting a rare mix of production software, ML, and computational materials science. Colleagues value his ability to translate research-grade simulations into robust, operable systems that run reliably at Google scale. Based in the Bay Area, he combines scientific curiosity with pragmatic leadership to drive measurable improvements in search index quality.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Michigan State UniversityBachelor of Science, Physics; Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics; Physics at Kuang Yaming Honor School, Nanjing University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
zhuzhen216/High-throughput-2D-semiconductor-calculation
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
zhuzhen216/repeat_fortran
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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