William Zhu

Research Engineer at Google

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Research Engineer at Google
    Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Gemini Omni post-training core contributor. • Veo 3.1 post-training core contributor. • Imagen 4 post-training contributor. Core contributor on image reference capabilities. Gemini Nano Banana contributor on data workstream. • Talk on video generation model works at YouTube at the Google Booth at ICCV 2025. • Veo 1 core contributor. • First-author paper at ECCV2024, on multimodal visual understanding. • Core contributor to internal large video-text dataset.

  • Software Engineer Intern (ML) at Lyft
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos

    • Trained Light GBM model for driver arrival time prediction. Reduced prediction error by 14% compared to current baseline. • Implemented online model inference pipeline in Golang. • Launched an A/B test in production to test the effect of displaying to users improved driver arrival time estimation. • Launched an A/B test for experiment selectively nudging users away from requesting during driver undersupply if pickup wait is too long compared to actual ride time, to increase overall efficiency by minimizing unproductive time getting to riders.

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Autonomy (VCLA) at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
    Nov 2020 - Mar 2021 · 5 mos

    • Implemented and ran various baseline experiments in PyTorch. • Trained unsupervised visual scene segmentation model and assisted in implementation for paper accepted at ICCV 2021.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Teradata
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020 · 4 mos

    • Built database-integrated Python framework for automated metrics projection using statistics models. • Designed algorithm to solve pagination drifting issues in API calls. • Created demos for Teradata analytics platform’s new ML engine.

  • Undergraduate Student Researcher at W. M. Keck Center for Neurophysics at University of California, Los Angeles
    Mar 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Trained deep learning model to classify neuron signals. • Built automated GUI and ETL pipeline for data-labelling.