Eric Liao
Data Scientist
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Liao is a data scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning, bioinformatics, and genomics to drive scientific and business decisions across government, commercial, pharmaceutical, and academic settings. He blends hands-on ML/NLP and MLOps expertise—building FastAPI services, Azure pipelines, and W&B-tracked workflows—with deep domain knowledge in NGS lab operations and life-science product commercialization. As a co-founder of a genomics startup, he scaled technical and business functions from discovery-driven bioinformatics to regulatory-aware operations and customer-facing diagnostics. Currently at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health he is prototyping GenAI RAG applications for public-health knowledge retrieval, bringing startup-grade agility to government data problems. With dual graduate training in machine learning and biochemistry, he uniquely bridges computational rigor and wet-lab realities to translate complex genomic data into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, BS, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at University of California, DavisMaster of Science (MS), Biochemistry, Master of Science (MS), Biochemistry at California State University, Long BeachMaster's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (46)
localai9
multimodal9
d3js9
predictive-analytics8
flask8
mongodb8
amazon-ec28
vector-database8
llm8
apache-spark7
golang7
amazon-web-services7
no-code7
kafka7
scikit-learn7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bennwei/Flight_delay_prediction_web_app
May 2018 - Apr 2022
A big data web application to predict USA airline traffic delay with Python, Flask, Apache Spark, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, d3.js, scikit-learn, MLlib and Apache Airflow.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
airflowapache-airflowapache-sparkbig-datad3js
bennwei/h2ogpt
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Private Q&A and summarization of documents+images or chat with local GPT, 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports LLaMa2, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year
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