Li Chu
Reliability User Research Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLi Chu is a Reliability User Research Engineer with nearly a decade of mixed-methods experience bridging psychology and product design to make emerging technologies accessible and reliable. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford, where she led studies on older adults’ technology needs and prototyped data-collection tools in collaboration with computer scientists and industry partners. At BayOne/Google and Apple she has driven 20+ studies informing hardware and software decisions across authentication, accessibility, and AI features, translating behavioral insights into actionable design and marketing recommendations. Proficient in R and Python, she combines experimental rigor with practical usability testing—often pairing longitudinal analyses with in-the-wild diary and survey methods. Based in Mountain View, she brings a rare mix of academic depth and product-facing impact, and is known for turning subtle behavioral patterns into clear product priorities.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at The University of British ColumbiaThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, taiwanese hokkien, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
kaggle8
cuda8
classification8
regression8
autocomplete8
data-mining8
r8
computation8
catboost7
cpu7
machine-learning7
gpu7
django7
python7
scalable6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aassdd654/stock-buy-sale-indicator
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
aassdd654/investmentcondofinder
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.