Jinyu Li
Data Scientist II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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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
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Statistics, Merit, Master's degree, Statistics, Merit at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, GPA: 3.96/4, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, GPA: 3.96/4 at University of Nebraska-LincolnHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBechelor of Economics, Insurance (Actuarial Science Stream), Bechelor of Economics, Insurance (Actuarial Science Stream) at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
cognitive-services10
swagger10
api10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
microsoft9
microsoft-azure9
browser9
sdk9
nodejs9
typescript8
javascript8
azure-sdk7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JinyuID/azure-docs
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
JinyuID/azure-rest-api-specs
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 1 day
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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