Summary
Yiliu Tang is a PhD student in Informatics at UIUC with 12 years of software engineering experience spanning research and full‑stack development. He currently contributes to research projects at UIUC and the IBM-ILLINOIS C3SR center, applying scalable computing and data-driven methods developed during internships ranging from satellite-based crop classification to web platforms built with React, Firebase, and Spring Boot. Comfortable moving between research and production code, he has a track record of turning experimental ideas into working systems and collaborating across academia and industry. Based in Champaign, he pairs rigorous statistical and CS foundations from UIUC with hands-on experience in frontend, backend, and machine‑learning-adjacent research.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Temasek Junior College