Li-yen Hsu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLi-yen Hsu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in San Jose with eight years of experience applying ML and data science across healthcare, enterprise AI, and autonomous vehicle domains. She holds a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics, bringing a strong research background and quantitative rigor to production ML problems at companies including Lumiata, C3 AI, CLARA Analytics, and currently Waymo. Li-yen has progressed from research and intern roles to technical leadership positions, designing models and pipelines that bridge scientific methods with scalable engineering. Her work often sits at the intersection of noisy real-world data and high-stakes applications, where careful feature engineering and robust validation matter most. Fluent in translating academic modeling techniques into production-ready systems, she combines domain depth with hands-on implementation experience. Colleagues describe her as a methodical problem-solver who leverages astrophysics-trained analytical thinking to tackle complex industry data challenges.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chinese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (19)
lifecycle7
apache-spark7
machine-learning7
ai6
python6
model-management5
dvc5
incremental-learning5
step-functions4
mlflow4
aws3
ml3
issue-tracking3
data-science2
science2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
liyenhsu/restaurant-data-with-consumer-ratings
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
liyenhsu/Loan-Granting-Problem
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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