Lian Lim
Community TeXpert at Overleaf (Writelatex Limited)
Penang, Malaysia
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Top SchoolLian Lim is a LaTeX specialist and NLP researcher with 13 years of experience delivering training, consultancy and community support—currently serving as Community TeXpert at Overleaf and running an independent LaTeX training practice. He designs institutional LaTeX classes and templates used by universities and journals, and is the primary developer of the popular AltaCV résumé class on GitHub. His academic work and PhD research bridge multilingual lexicography, lexical semantics and practical NLP applications such as MalayWordNet, WSD with conceptual vectors, and multilingual lexicontology. Lian has supported organizations including the Linux Foundation and Consumers International, and has taught LaTeX across multiple Malaysian universities. He combines deep technical craftsmanship in document design with research-grade experience in computational linguistics, making him adept at turning linguistic resources and legacy dictionaries into usable machine-readable tools. An unusual strength is his dual focus on elegant typesetting and the underlying lexical knowledge that powers language technology.
13 years of coding experience
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Universiti Sains MalaysiaPhD, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, PhD, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing at Multimedia UniversityBSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Warwick
English, Chinese, Malay
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
latex10
font-awesome9
overleaf6
beamer6
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
liantze/AltaCV
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
Yet another alternative curriculum vitae/résumé class with LaTeX
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 27 PRs, 55 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lian appears to be the primary developer of the LaTeX class `altacv`, focusing on its functionality and features. They introduced the initial class structure and core components, including the header, sections, and various formatting options. The user also implemented significant improvements, such as adding the `academicons` package and incorporating features like multiple photo support and customizable hyperlinks. They addressed bugs and made enhancements to ensure the class's usability and integration with modern LaTeX distributions.
curriculumvitaeyet-anotherlatexcurriculum-vitae
mohdhairimohdzaman/GayaUKM
Feb 2014 - Jan 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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