Summary
Li Yu is a Senior Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience bridging academic research and production systems, currently at Blue River Technology. He combines a strong research background—publishing at ACM and ECCV on explainable image feature representations and working on optimal transport and corrosion image analysis—with hands-on deployment of semantic segmentation and model optimization in stereo imagery. Previously he led data-science initiatives in biomedical imaging, delivering end-to-end solutions for cancer diagnosis, OCR, and tumor mutation prediction that improved recall and throughput in clinical settings. Comfortable moving models from research to GPU-clustered production, he also has experience teaching data science and applying graph neural networks and segmentation methods to real-world problems. Based in State College, PA, Li’s multidisciplinary training in informatics, physical chemistry, and mathematics gives him an unusual ability to translate domain-specific challenges into robust ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at Penn State University
Master of Science - MS Physical Chemistry, Master of Science - MS Physical Chemistry at Emory University
Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry + Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry + Mathematics at Peking University