Yu Liu
Senior Staff Engineer, Associate Principal Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Liu is a Senior Staff/Associate Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building instrumentation and tooling that enable biomedical discovery, currently driving engineering at Element Biosciences in San Diego. He combines a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech and a background in chemical physics with hands-on expertise in prototyping and scaling laboratory instruments from concept to product. His career spans roles in genomics and life-science companies (Complete Genomics, PreciGenome) and industrial chemistry, giving him a rare blend of deep experimental science and practical engineering. Known for integrating microfluidics and pattern-formation insights from his academic research into robust device design, he focuses on translating complex physical chemistry into reliable, manufacturable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemical Physics, BS, Chemical Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaCalifornia Institute of TechnologyNankai High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
vscode-extension8
vscode7
rails5
git4
ruby4
github4
rails-engines4
visualizations4
git-blame3
standardization2
bioinformatics2
ieee1
communications1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ohliumliu/flash_deals_c9
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
ohliumliu/connectingdots
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 1 year 1 month
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