Lu Huang
Machine Learning Engineer at Uber AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLu Huang is a Machine Learning Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of technical experience and a PhD in Statistics and Applied Machine Learning from the University of Pennsylvania. She has five years focused on ML and a strong engineering background from roles at Uber AI, UPenn research, and St. Jude, where she applied probabilistic modeling, ConvNets, MCMC and Bayesian causal inference to biomedical and production problems. Comfortable across research and production, she has shipped ML systems for genomic disease prediction and built open-source analysis packages and in-house tooling. An active iOS contributor as well, Lu improved UI, accessibility and media features in the widely used JSQMessagesViewController and fixed correctness issues in a popular changelog generator, demonstrating attention to both front-end polish and backend robustness. Known for clear communication and collaborative spirit, she blends statistical rigor with practical engineering to move models from prototypes to stakeholder-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Applied Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Applied Machine Learning at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
4,008reputation
211kreached
200answers
14questions
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Github Skills (17)
ios10
messaging10
log-generator10
ruby10
changelog10
swift10
objective-c9
ui-design9
generator9
github-api8
markdown7
markdown-it7
parse-platform6
xcode6
uitableview6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
An elegant messages UI library for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 24 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lu primarily contributed to the `jsqmessagesviewcontroller` repository by implementing new features and fixing existing issues related to the iOS messaging UI. Their work included adding audio message support to the Swift example app and incorporating Objective-C nullability. They also addressed bugs, such as a crash fix related to media view handling, and improved the video thumbnail feature. Furthermore, the user focused on UI improvements and accessibility through implementing UI element identifiers.
ios-uiui-libraryiosmessagingmessenger
github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 41 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lu primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature refinements for the changelog generator. They addressed syntax errors related to credit line generation, resolving a bug that produced multiple credit lines and fixing a syntax ambiguity. Additionally, the user removed an option and fixed command ambiguity. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving code correctness and functionality within the project.
changelogrubypull-requestschangelog-generatorgenerator
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