Peiran Qiu

SWE Intern @ Google | CS+Applied Math @ USC | RA @ USC/ISI | USC ICPC Team Member

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Software Engineering Intern at Google
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Artificial Intelligence and Infrastructure Organization - LLM Post-Training/Fine-Tuning/RAG System

  • HUMANS Lab Research Assistant at USC Information Sciences Institute
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    First-authored paper accepted by Information Sciences (JCR Q1 Journal), Volume 724, January 2026 Research supported by USC Provost’s Research Fellowship for 2025 Fall, USC URAP Grant for 2025 Summer Designed a pipeline to design querying prompts and collected the data Proposed an auditing framework, for identifying semantic-level censorship by comparing prompts, CoT reasoning, and outputs Demonstrated that accessing the underlying chain-of-thought reasoning steps can help recover suppressed information and reveal internal tensions in model behavior Developing LLM-based models for the detection of online human trafficking patterns Had deep understanding and hands-on experience on Vision-Language-Action Models (VLA)

  • Viterbi Learning Program - Undergraduate Tutor at USC Viterbi School of Engineering
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    Hired by Viterbi School of Engineering; Providing Computer Science and Mathematics tutoring services to USC students

  • Assistant Engineer at China Unicom
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 · 2 mos

    Interned at the Center of Technology Development, China Unicom (Sichuan) Industrial Internet LLC Work focuses on LLM application

  • Student Attachment at Institute for Infocomm Research
    Apr 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Supervised by Dr. Yu, J. in Signal Processing, Rf & Optical (SRO) Department • Planned & conducted IRB-Approved experiments examined brain activation during translations using fNIRS