About

Na Li is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 8 years of relevant experience. Currently working in Google Brain, she builds machine learning models that run in the browser with web technology, including Javascript, WebGL, and Web Assembly. Na is a full-stack software engineer with experience in AdMob, where she built AdMob's first mobile application for AdMob sell-side platform. She also contributed to server API designs and optimizations. Before joining Google, Na was a TL at Walmartlab, leading the account team. Her team focused on creating the best order and payment management experience for walmart.com users. She launched new features at high speed, at the same time redesigned server APIs with cutting-edge tech stacks. Na also worked as a research scientist at Harvard, where she single-handedly built an online learning platform lab.tellab.org, a highly interactive powerpoint-like creation studio to support students design and run cognitive experiments. Na holds a Ph.D. from Penn State, where she studied machine learning and adaptive user interface. She enjoys exploring and trying new languages, frameworks, and technology. Na is skilled in software engineering, ML, web development, research, and mobile development. At Google, Na has worked on several fronts on bringing machine learning to the client-side, which allows low-latency inference, preserves user privacy, and has no server maintenance cost. Her work includes researching and launching end-to-end ML solutions to the web, implementing and optimizing kernels for web environments, and building toolings for development, deployment, and productionization of web ML solutions. Na has also worked in the display Ads domain in Google, where she designed and led building the AdMob Mobile app from scratch. The app provides reporting dashboard, notifications, and account information features to AdMob users. Na's tech stack includes Software Engineering, ML, Web Development, Research, Javascript, Tensorflow, Mobile Development, Frontend Development, Flutter, and UI. With her vast experience and expertise, Na is an asset to any team she works with.