Work Experience

9/2003 - present, Google Inc.

   Founder, Lively by Google

• Created vision, got project chartered.
• Built and led a team through technical design and implementation. Launched as lively.com.
• Co-inventor on 5 pending patents.

• Led a team of engineers to improve Gmail revenue. Launched 15 experiments, with a cumulative revenue increase of 140%.
• Implemented in C++ and Java various techniques of text processing and information retrieval.
• Oversaw features, technical direction, scheduling.
• Co-inventor on 3 pending patents.

• Served as one of the original engineers on the project, from initial design through public launch.
• Contributed leadership experience toward scheduling, feature prioritization, staffing.
• Implemented key components including the search query system, instant messenger capture, snippets, server pings, the sidebar.
• Co-inventor on 19 pending patents.
• Won a Google Founder's Award.

• Worked on the launch of theatre showtimes & reviews on google.com.
• Developed in C++ algorithms for query parsing and ranking of movie clusters.

• Served on the Hiring Committee which makes offer approval or rejection on interview candidates.
• Screened 10 - 20 engineering resumes per week for phone screen approval.
• Participated in various marketing campaigns for Google PR, including New York Times, monster.com, CNN, FastCompany, Fortune.

7/1998 - 9/2003, Microsoft

   Software Design Engineer Lead, Microsoft Flight Simulator

• Managed a sub-team of developers through the shipping of Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight.
• Developed a service that supplies streaming real-time weather information for users to download and simulate current weather conditions.
• Did performance analysis and optimization for Flight Simulator 2002. Reduced stutters from hundreds per minute to virtually nil, and dramatically increased framerates.
• Created the dynamic weather system, the main selling point of Flight Simulator 2004. Press reviewers describe it as "breathtaking", "amazing", "a breakthrough".
• Developed an innovative technology for rendering clouds. Presented at SIGGRAPH, GDC.
• Improved multiplayer system, lobby system. Wrote flight instructor application.

• Implemented various areas of a racing game for PC and Xbox, including UI, art pipeline, input system.

Education

• M.S., Computer Science, University of Washington, 2001. GPA 3.9. (While working fulltime at Microsoft.)
• B.S., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1998. GPA 3.8. (Graduated at age 18.)
  

Publications

• Wang, N., Wade, B. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (and Rain). Game Programming Gems 5, Charles River Media. 2005.
• Wang, N. Realistic and Fast Cloud Rendering, Journal of Graphics Tools. 2004.
• Wang, N. Let There Be Clouds, Game Developers Magazine. January 2004.
• Ishii, H., Page, S., Wang, N. 1999. A Day at the Beach: Human Agents Self-Organizing on the Sand Pile. Advances in Complex Systems. Vol 2, Issue 1. p 37 - 64.

Patents

• 27 pending patents for Google work. Two filed patents for Microsoft work.

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