Maxwell Zheng Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

My teams support data-related needs across Meta’s sales and marketing organizations, who aim to help businesses around the world find value using Meta’s services. Our role is to pilot and build infra in the areas of experimentation and measurement, build statistical and ML models, and design data flows and data models. We also support eng partners with goaling/KPIs, incrementality measurement, and product analytics. Our closest partners are business programs, operations, product, and engineering teams.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Consulted for flash auction marketplace startup to develop automated keyphrase extraction using a Python NLP workflow (spaCy, pandas, Redshift/Postgres), and delivered production ready code• Created unsupervised model on >20M auction items with 90% accuracy in extracting semantically meaningful keyphrases, using a combination of automatic and Mechanical Turk human validation• goo.gl/aAMlFH

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Weekly presentations of summarized technical results and recommendations to senior executives in marketing, engineering, product, and operations• Led data analytics team in finding and solving root causes of high volume manufacturing ramp up problems, delivering $5 million in value• Developed Python data visualization pipeline that saved an average of 100 man-hours per week• Created process optimization that saved company $4 million and received DSM business unit Employee Excellence award first business quarter after starting• Worked in cross-functional team spanning robotics, process, hardware, software, and marketing to increase customer fleet uptime by 40%, delivering $65 million in value

• Led team of 7 students and postdocs in charge of research plans, equipment procurement, funding proposals, and training• Project management of collaborations spanning 7 groups across academic institutions, national labs, and industry• Presented results to large technical and non-technical audiences• Cost analysis of new compound semiconductor manufacturing technology, including scaling challenges and commercial feasibility

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Executed on aggressive timelines: 2 patents pending, 21 peer-reviewed publications, and >1000 citations in 5 years (goo.gl/Bn1kSX)• Designed and constructed in-house optical characterization tools using lasers and camera systems• Designed, fabricated, modeled new solar cell structures that went from concept to 12% efficiency in <3 years with the goal of commercialization; prior comparable technologies took 10-15 years to reach this milestone• Developed advanced device concepts by putting materials such as graphene, III-V and oxide semiconductors together in novel ways• Designed and constructed in-house CVD/PVD tools• Lithium-ion battery anode design: high surface area CuO nanoparticles and high conductivity textured carbon nanotube scaffolding as a high rate anode• Tested battery cell performance using techniques such as GCPL/CCCV, EIS, CV

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Taught classes of 40+ and 60+ students in core major class

Berkeley, Ca, Us

- Served as lab safety officer- Pioneered new low-cost materials synthesis techniques- Implemented advanced electrical and optical characterization capabilities

Bethesda, Md, Us

Worked in Advanced Technologies R&D group on laser wave mixing for hypersensitive chemical detection of roadside IEDs, upgraded system to do automated measurements using LabVIEW.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led project to increase inspection throughput of PCB interconnect manufacturing process

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering And Computer Sciences, Materials Science

B.S., Electrical Engineering And Computer Sciences