Shu Hu
Lead Developer at QuantEcon
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolShu Hu is a Lead Developer and Economics PhD candidate at The Australian National University with six years of experience combining research, teaching, and software development for the QuantEcon community. Based in Canberra, Shu leads engineering efforts at QuantEcon while pursuing doctoral research in economics, bringing rigorous quantitative skills to open-source economic modeling and developer-focused tooling. Their background includes repeated roles at ANU as a tutor and researcher, signalling strong communication skills and an ability to translate complex theory into teachable code and reproducible research. Notably, Shu progressed from casual research assistant to pre-doctoral fellow and now lead developer within the same organization, demonstrating both technical growth and institutional trust.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
markov-chain10
python10
econometrics10
economics10
statsmodels10
quantitative10
markov10
data-science9
machine-learning9
jax8
computation7
theory7
julia5
finance4
inequality4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
QuantEcon/qe_lunch_workshops
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 109 commits, 76 PRs in 8 months
shlff/personal_website
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:73 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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