Yiru Chen
Applied Scientist at Adobe
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiru Chen is an Applied Scientist at Adobe with a decade of experience bridging research and product development in AI, data interfaces, and explainable ML. She earned a PhD from Columbia, where her dissertation on democratizing data interfaces produced PI2, the first fully interactive interface generation system, and work on backend optimization for interactive visualizations. Her background includes research internships at Microsoft and collaborations at UC Berkeley’s EPIC data lab, reflecting a mix of systems, HCI, and data-management expertise. Based in San Jose, she combines academic rigor—supported by a Google PhD Fellowship—with practical engineering, now focusing on AI assistant capabilities that make complex data tools more accessible to nonexperts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (24)
responsive9
jekyll-theme9
jekyll9
visualization7
distributed-computing7
github-pages7
python6
data-visualization5
pydata5
dask5
scheduler5
r-package5
task-scheduler3
distributed-systems3
geopandas2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ireneruru/ireneruru.github.io
Nov 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
Ireneruru/Minesweep
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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