Alison Chang
USA
Google Software Engineer
Alison has been working as a Software Engineer (SWE) on Natural Language Understanding for Google Assistant for 4 years. She discovered coding in her first year at Columbia University and ended up majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Psychology. During undergrad, Alison explored both the industry and academia sides of the tech field through 2 Google internships (Taipei 2014, California 2015) and a few years of research in a Natural Language Processing lab at Columbia.
A native New Yorker, Alison graduated from Columbia in 2016, spent the summer teaching high school students at Girls Who Code, (learned to drive), and moved to the west coast to work at Google headquarters. She continues to be passionate about tech, education, and representation within STEM and co-led the Google Women in Engineering Bay Area group for several years.
Outside of tech, Alison is a huge fan of puzzle hunts, escape rooms, and jigsaw puzzles, sings tenor in a women's barbershop chorus, and misses playing with her half-poodle-quarter-lab-quarter-cocker-spaniel, Cookie, who lives with her parents in NYC.