Our Story
Chinese Women in Computing (CWiC) is affiliated with the Anita Borg Institute’s Systers community groups to inspire, motivate and move women in technology. Chinese women in the computing roles have our unique challenges and advantages given our cultural background and life experiences, we are here to support one another through professional development and career decisions
Meet the Team
Rui Shen
Co-Chair
Rui works as a Tech Lead Manager in Google Cloud Platform at the Google Kirkland Office. She holds a PhD degree from the School of Engineering at Brown University. Since relocating to the vibrant Seattle area in 2017, she has embraced numerous outdoor activities such as hiking and skiing. Rui is deeply passionate about fostering growth and development within the CWIC (Chinese Women in Computing) community, aspiring to empower and advance women professionals in the IT industry.
Qingsu Wu
Co-chair
Natalie Mao
Board
Natalie is the founding member of CWIC starting 2014 and had been the co-chair until 2023. Natalie currently works as a Director of Product Management at Amazon. She is an avid problem solver for customers who had been creating products that do just that during her 16+ years at Microsoft before she joined Amazon. She has extensive consumer-facing product management and global development experiences across online advertising, search, platform, knowledge graph, personalized content recommendation, big data, and customer experience. Natalie is very passionate about building large scale AI powered products and making the world a better place for everyone via product innovation.
Natalie has a master’s in computer science and an MBA with a double major in strategy management and effective organization with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Wharton. She holds multiple U.S. patents. Natalie is the founder and co-chair of Chinese Women in Computing (CWiC). She actively supports diversity and inclusion at her workplace and in the tech industry.
Elaine Lu
Board
Elaine joined CWIC in 2017, resumed the co-chair role between 2018 and 2023. She works at Databricks as a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager. She lives in the beautiful Washington State with her loving husband, two kids, mom and an adorable cat. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Information Management from University of Toronto. She has worked at IBM, SAP, Chase Bank and Microsoft in various tech roles. She appreciates the innovations that the tech industry introduced to our lives and at the same time, understands the challenges of finding a work life balance. She is here to serve CWIC and share her experiences to grow and support her fellow systers.
Jingyi Du
Communication Manager
Jingyi is a Senior Software Engineer with the Windows 365 Growth Team at Microsoft. She works on growing the business by empowering customer to maximize their productivity using Microsoft services. Her work involves performing ideation, design, experimentation, data analysis, interpretation, modeling etc. Jingyi obtains M.S. of computer science from University of Southern California. She relishes hacking, generating new ideas and scaling them broadly and passionate about exploring the interaction between technology and sociology, such as inclusiveness, e.g. one of her projects received Windows Shell Inclusive Hackathon Award. Outside of the tech world, she is the producer and host of “She Said” and “The Weekly Finance show” for the Seattle Chinese Radio Station. Recently, she covered the Seattle International Film Festival. At 2019, she has joined Chinese Women in Computing community (CWiC) to drive the communication effort.
Tina Chen
Finance Manager
Tina works at Microsoft as a Principal Program manager in the Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering organization. She has 10+ years in the Microsoft Azure Cloud computing space with various roles in Marketing, Finance and Capacity planning. Tina holds an MBA degree from University of Washington and a BA degree from National Taiwan University. She is the treasurer in CWiC, managing the finance for the organization.
Hui Liao
Systers
Hui is a Director in the Google Cloud Programs organization. She started in Google DevOps, led the T/PgM team to build the operation framework to empower the DevOps organization to achieve product execution excellence. She currently leads the Cloud Networking TP/gM org that drive the execution of Google Cloud Platform’s networking infrastructure, tools and products.
Prior to Google, Hui worked at IBM for about 17 years, as an Engineering Director and engineering leader responsible for the development of a number of software product areas including Natural Language Processing, Enterprise Search, Big Data, Database, data warehousing and business intelligence. Hui holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Florida, and M.B.A from U.C Berkeley Haas Business School.
