Wennan Zhu

Wennan Zhu

Research Scientist

Google Research

Wennan Zhu is a research scientist at Google. Her research interests include federated analytics, differential privacy, social choice theory and algorithmic game theory. Before joining Google, she was a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Elliot Anshelevich.

Interests

  • Federated Analytics
  • Differential Privacy
  • Mechanism Design
  • Algorithmic Game Theory

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2020

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010

    Peking Union Medical College

  • BE in Computer Science and Technology, 2006

    Tsinghua University

Publications

(2021). Ordinal Approximation for Social Choice, Matching, and Facility Location Problems given Candidate Positions. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC). Conference version appeared in WINE 2018.

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(2020). Federated Heavy Hitters Discovery with Differential Privacy. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).

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(2019). Tradeoffs between information and ordinal approximation for bipartite matching. Theory of Computing Systems. Conference version appeared in SAGT 2017.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist

Google

Jul 2020 – Present Seattle
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Google

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Seattle
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer Intern

Google

May 2018 – Aug 2018 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Mozilla China

Jul 2010 – Oct 2013 Beijing