Lizhen Shi
Assistant Professor Of Instruction at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLizhen Shi is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University with a decade of experience bridging industry-grade software engineering and academic research in big data, machine learning, computational biology, and data science. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Florida State University and previously served on the faculty at Florida Polytechnic University after research and internship roles at FSU and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Earlier in her career she spent five years as a senior software engineer in industry, giving her practical expertise in designing and shipping production systems. Her work combines rigorous research methods with hands-on teaching, mentoring students to apply scalable ML and data pipelines to real-world biological problems. Based in Evanston, Illinois, she brings a rare blend of academic depth and enterprise development experience that informs curriculum and collaborative research. Colleagues note her ability to translate complex computational biology challenges into teachable, reproducible data-science projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Florida State UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Auburn University
Github Skills (32)
classifier10
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
bengali9
document-classification9
wordnet9
tf-idf9
glove9
classification8
sentence-similarity8
fasttext8
lda8
similarity8
topic-modeling8
word2vec8
word-embeddings7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Lizhen0909/LSHVec
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:53 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
Lizhen0909/SpaRC-MPI
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 2 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.