Wendy (Wenjing) Huang

I'm a software engineer and researcher passionate about machine learning, autonomous systems, data engineering, and building technology that matters. I have studied my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Northwestern University.

Wendy Huang

Education

Northwestern University

Master of Science · Computer Science

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026

Northwestern University

Bachelor of Science · Computer Science & Data Science

Sep 2022 – Jun 2026

Experience

Jun 2026 – Present
Santa Clara, CA · On-site

Incoming Software Engineer

XPENG · Full-time

Autonomous Driving Data Team

Autonomous Driving Data Engineering
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
New York, NY · Hybrid

Software Engineer Intern

China Merchants Bank · Full-time

Backend client transaction database systems

Software Infrastructure Database Design Java Spring Boot
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
Evanston, IL · Hybrid

Machine Learning Engineer

Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) · Part-time

Mentored by Prof. Brian Uzzi and Dr. Sophie Huilian Qiu

Reinforcement Learning Network Analysis
Jul 2024 – Sep 2024
Beijing, China · On-site

Software Engineer Intern

Zhi-tech Group · Full-time

AIGC & AGI team

Python MongoDB Vue.js

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Skills

Languages
Java Python C/C++ JavaScript TypeScript Go SQL Bash R MATLAB HTML/CSS
Frameworks
Spring Boot Django Flask Node.js Express React React Native Vue PyTorch RESTful APIs
Databases & Messaging
PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch Kafka RabbitMQ GraphQL
Infrastructure
AWS Docker Kubernetes Nginx CI/CD OAuth2 Git Linux

Publications

2025
What Makes Writing Work? Linguistic Features of Accepted vs. Rejected ICLR Submissions
Zhenghao Vermous Kang, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Wenjing Huang
ICSC 2025 Oral