Yi Liu
Research Fellow at MRC-IEU, University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Liu is a research-focused software engineer and data scientist with 11 years' experience building health data platforms and research-grade tooling at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol. Transitioning from academia (PhD in Economics) into applied health data science, Yi has led NLP, graph database and web service development for EpigraphDB and designed robust data architectures as a senior research associate. He combines rigorous quantitative training with practical software engineering—shipping open-source tools and maintaining an active GitHub presence and personal site that showcase reproducible research workflows. Based in Bristol, he excels at translating epidemiological questions into scalable, auditable systems and is equally comfortable architecting back-end services or implementing graph-based analyses for causal inference.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Economics, Distinction at Wuhan UniversityBachelor's degree, Financial Management, Bachelor's degree, Financial Management at China University of GeosciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at University of Birmingham
python, r, javascript, emacs lisp, English, Chinese, bash
Github Skills (37)
ess10
r-package10
api-client10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
vim10
emacs10
spacemacs10
bioinformatics10
graph-database9
elisp9
statistics8
sublime7
sublime-text6
interaction5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MRCIEU/upptime
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2761 pushes, 117 comments, 240 issues in 2 years 5 months
MRCIEU/epigraphdb_web
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:288 commits, 72 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 1 month
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