Qi Zhao

Qi Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer at Waymo since January 2020, specializing in machine learning for behavior prediction. Prior experience includes a Software Engineer role at Google from February 2016 to January 2020, where contributions were made in machine learning, information extraction, and natural language processing, as well as software development for Google Fiber. Qi Zhao served as a Graduate Research Assistant at UC Santa Cruz from October 2010 to September 2016, focusing on e-commerce product recommendation issues. Additional roles include Founding Research Engineer at Gingerhome, Analytics Intern at BlueKai, and Research Engineer at the National University of Singapore. Qi Zhao holds a Master of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Fudan University.