Liwei Wu
Founder & CEO at TradingTransformer Technologies LLC
United States
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Top SchoolLiwei Wu is a founder and CEO with a decade of machine learning research and product experience, combining a PhD in statistics with hands-on recommender and NLP engineering at LinkedIn and Coursera. He built production recommender features, filed multiple patents (including LLM-driven knowledge graph construction), and led course recommendation efforts that translate research into user-facing impact. As founder of TradingTransformer Technologies he now focuses on AI agents for financial empowerment, aiming to narrow the wealth gap by democratizing AI tools. Liwei’s publication record across KDD, ICML, NeurIPS and CVPR and service on major ML conference committees reflect deep scholarly roots alongside startup execution. A fast learner and persistent problem-solver, he brings cross-cultural communication skills from study and work across China, Hong Kong, the UK and the US. An early mover on applying deep learning to real-world signals, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics (Machine Learning), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics (Machine Learning) at University of California, DavisExchange Program, Exchange Program at University of Wisconsin-MadisonStudy abroad, Study abroad at University of CambridgeBachelor’s Degree, Computing Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing Mathematics at City University of Hong Kong
Chinese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (46)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
google-scholar9
price-history9
alpaca9
authentication-workflow8
api8
interactive-brokers8
python-client8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wuliwei9278/SQL-Rank
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
wuliwei9278/SSE-PT
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
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