Jinyu Li
Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJinyu Li is a Data Scientist II at Microsoft with a Ph.D. in Statistics and over five years of experience turning advanced analytics into measurable business impact for consumer products, especially within Xbox. She builds and deploys predictive models—such as five-year CLV forecasts—and conducts content strategy analyses that inform first- and third-party content decisions and targeted marketing. Her background blends rigorous academic research (novel algorithms for inverse covariance estimation and temporal gene co-expression networks) with industry-facing forecasting and campaign measurement work at Intuit and Microsoft. Based in Redmond, she mentors graduate students and routinely translates complex statistical methods into production-ready pipelines on cloud infrastructure. Notably, her academic algorithms improved covariance estimation by ~30%, a technical edge she brings to customer-centric problems.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Peking UniversityBachelor, Applied Physics, Bachelor, Applied Physics at Jilin University
Chinese
Github Skills (13)
cognitive-services10
rest-api10
azure10
swagger10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft-azure9
browser8
javascript8
js8
nodejs8
azure-sdk8
typescript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JinyuID/azure-docs
Oct 2020 - May 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 7 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
JinyuID/azure-rest-api-specs
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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