Zhanhao Liu 💻
Zhanhao Liu

Software Engineer

Google DeepMind

About Me

Zhanhao Liu is a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, building Gemini Agent. Previously at Google Core Labs, he worked on GenAI Agents, Blockchain, and Identity Management. His expertise spans distributed systems, machine learning, and system design.

Interests
  • GenAI Agent
  • ML System
  • Blockchain
Education

  • MSc in Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Computer Science

    Chinese University of Hong Kong

Experience

  1. Software Engineer

    Google DeepMind
    • Gemini Spark ✨: Drove the 0-to-1 development of the 24/7 personal AI agent and co-led the Agent Skills track for its Google I/O 2026 launch.
    • Gemini Agent 🚀: Engineered end-to-end multi-step agent planning and latency optimizations to support the product launch.
    • Skills for all: Co-leading the development of shared Agent Skills and Agent Planning infrastructure across all Gemini surfaces (Chat, macOS, and Chrome).

  2. Software Engineer

    Google
    • Core Labs (2024-2025):
      • Built a Puppeteer-based browser AI agent for autonomous web testing, reducing manual QA overhead by 80%.
      • Architected a high-performance ledger achieving 1M+ TPS, which graduated to form the foundation of Google Cloud’s Universal Ledger (adopted by CME Group).
    • CoreID Tech Lead (2020-2024):
      • Led a 10-engineer team designing and deploying secure, scalable identity and access management (IAM) services across Google.

  3. Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant

    Georgia Tech
    • CS 4400 Introduction to Database Systems (Spring/Fall 2019)
    • CS 8803 DML: Data Management and Machine Learning (Fall 2018)
    • Research on Approximate ML via Importance Sampling
    • Research on Automated Feature Engineering: Third Prize in KDD Cup 2019 AutoML Track

  4. Software Engineer Intern

    Google
    • Modeling and prediction of financial time series data via ML

  5. Research Intern

    SenseTime
    • R&D on large-scale ML system

Education

  1. MSc in Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Grade: 4.0/4.0
    • Specialization: Computing Systems
    • Advisors: Prof. Xu Chu

  2. BSc in Computer Science

    Chinese University of Hong Kong
Project
KDD Cup AutoML Challenge
KDD Cup 2019 ∙ August 2019
3rd prize worldwide in developing AutoML solution for temporal relational data classification with a team of researchers from Alibaba Group and Georgia Tech
FlexPS: Flexible Parallelism Control in Parameter Server Architecture
VLDB 2018 ∙ January 2018
  • Built FlexPS, a Parameter Server system with flexible parallelism control
  • Achieved 400% speedup vs Spark MLlib in k-means++ implementation
  • Optimized sparse data communication, reducing server time by 45%
Publication
Yuzhen Huang, Xiao Yan, Guanxian Jiang, Tatiana Jin, James Cheng, An Xu, Zhanhao Liu, Shuo Tu (2019). Tangram: Bridging Immutable and Mutable Abstractions for Distributed Data Analytics. In USENIX ATC 2019.
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