Ryan Levering, CS Department alumna and software engineer at Google, will give a colloquium presentation, titled “Inside Tech Today: Balancing AI’s Impact with Established Practices” on Friday, April 25, in Science Complex P101 from 12:30 – 1:30 PM.
See below for more information about our speaker.
Abstract: Curious about the realities of working at a tech company in today’s evolving landscape? The integration of large language models is rapidly changing the industry, yet foundational computer science knowledge remains highly relevant. This talk offers insights into the daily experiences within a tech firm, illustrating some ways machine learning is being used in the domain of web data extraction and search within the most popular search engine in the world.
Speaker Bio: Ryan Levering, a 2002 Computer Science alumnus of TCNJ, discovered a passion for the early Web during his graduate studies at Binghamton University. Driven by his love of programming, he left graduate school to join a company that was later acquired by Google – a long-held career aspiration. For the past 14 years at Google, Ryan has held diverse engineering roles, consistently focusing on the areas of data ingestion and extraction.