Where does Ding Zhou work?

Ding Zhou is Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures.

Where did Ding Zhou go to school?

Ding Zhou studied at Stanford University (Stanford LEAD: Corporate Innovation Certificate, Graduate School of Business); Penn State University (Ph.D., Computer Science); Fudan University (B.S., Computer Science).

Ding Zhou

Investor

Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Ding Zhou is a software engineer and data scientist focused on building and optimizing intelligent systems. He currently serves as Head of Ads Engineering at Pinterest, and previously held engineering roles at Facebook, Square, and DoorDash. He earned a Ph.D. from Penn State and a bachelor's degree from Fudan University, both in computer science.

Experience

CoupangVP of Engineeringcurrent2024 — present
Basis SetAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
LaurelAdvisor2025 — 2026
QuinceAdvisor2024 — 2026
Culina HealthAdvisor2024 — 2026
Snap Inc.VP of Engineering, Discovery2021 — 2024
PinterestVP of Engineering, Ads2017 — 2021
DoorDashVP of Engineering2015 — 2017San Francisco
SquareDirector of Engineering2013 — 2015
SignalFireAdvisor2013 — 2014
FacebookStaff Software Engineer2008 — 2012

Skills & more

Hadoop39Java9Python37MapReduce11Perl6C++8Python (Programming Language)1ManagementStrategySearch5Organizational LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)

+12 more

E-CommercePersonalizationMachine LearningData MiningText MiningSearch AdvertisingRecommender SystemsAdvertisingBig DataComputer ScienceData ScienceSoftware Engineering

Languages Chinese · English

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Colleagues at Basis Set Ventures

Catherine Stewart

Venture Partner at Basis Set Ventures

Chang Xu

Partner at Basis Set Ventures

Darrell Langlois

Board Chair; Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana at Blue Venture Funds

Dr. Lan Xuezhao

Founder & Partner at Basis Set Ventures

Eduardo Fonseca

Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures

Fahad Noor

Staff Engineer at Basis Set Ventures

Ian Wong

Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures

Ingrid Chen

Controller & Partner at Basis Set Ventures

Network12

Alexis OhanianScout

Founder & General Partner of Seven Seven Six

Hans TungScout

Managing Partner at Notable Capital

Arash FerdowsiScout

Co-founder of Dropbox

Ajay VasheeScout

Investor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)

Anamitra BanerjiScout

Co-founder, Managing Partner at Afore Capital

Barbry McGannScout

Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Workday Ventures

Edward SuhScout

General Partner at Alpine Ventures

Gaurav JainScout

Co-founder, Managing Partner at Afore Capital

Gokul RajaramScout

DoorDash, Coinbase, Square at Good AI Capital

Dave A. Salvant

President at Squire

Frédérique Dame

Investor at GV (Google Ventures)

Scott Stanford

Co-Founder and Partner at ACME Capital

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ding Zhou?: Ding Zhou is a software engineer and data scientist focused on building and optimizing intelligent systems. He currently serves as Head of Ads Engineering at Pinterest, and previously held engineering roles at Facebook, Square, and DoorDash. He earned a Ph.D. from Penn State and a bachelor's degree from Fudan University, both in computer science.
Where does Ding Zhou work?: Ding Zhou is Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures.
Where did Ding Zhou go to school?: Ding Zhou studied at Stanford University (Stanford LEAD: Corporate Innovation Certificate, Graduate School of Business); Penn State University (Ph.D., Computer Science); Fudan University (B.S., Computer Science).