About

Wei Sun is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer at Google, with a background in physics research and the IT industry. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has a strong track record in math, machine learning, system design, and full-stack web/app development. Wei is currently working on Artificial Intelligence by building Google Data Commons, an open knowledge graph that powers the next generation of AI. He has also worked at Google Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) on machine learning, IOT sensors, and devices. Wei's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Google, where he worked on Google Ads quality and user experience, built Google Ad/Abusive Experience Reports and APIs, and made open-source contributions to OpenFermion, a library designed for Google's quantum computers that compiles and analyzes quantum algorithms for simulating molecules. Prior to joining Google, Wei worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Advanced Analytics (OAA) group, where he worked on data mining software development and implemented key machine learning algorithms with Oracle's latest parallel infrastructure. He also conducted research on hacker-intrusion detection in the database using machine learning and performed benchmark comparisons between OAA and open-source machine learning libraries. Wei's education history includes a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and he attended Shandong Experimental High School. His technical skills include software engineering, machine learning, research science, AI, web development, and experience with Naive Bayes, Neural Networks, and infra. Wei has 8.52 years of relevant experience, and he is a strong engineering professional with a demonstrated history of working on complex projects in the IT industry.