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
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Harvard University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kingwood High School
English, Chinese