Shizhuo Yu
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShizhuo Yu is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with a PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis and 13 years of experience building scalable data integration and analysis systems. He blends research-grade expertise in ontology alignment, large-scale reasoning, and AI with practical engineering—delivering performance improvements such as 10x faster parallel reasoning and 50% runtime reduction through algorithmic optimizations. At Visa and in academic labs he’s combined Java and Python engineering with Hadoop, Docker, and Django to productionize pipelines that handle TB-scale biological and classification data. Comfortable collaborating across disciplines, he’s published research, taught core CS courses, and led cross-institution projects that translate complex scientific models into deployable software. Notably, his work emphasizes marrying logical, theory-driven methods with pragmatic system design to solve real-world data integration challenges.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Hong Kong Baptist University
Github Skills (9)
euler10
ref10
uic10
mp410
vimeo10
taxonomies10
cgi10
logic10
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shizhuoyu/thesis
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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