Chieh-li Chin
Research Manager, School Of Information Sciences
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolChieh-li Chin is a research manager and software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging information science, computer science, and social science research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She combines hands-on software development and data engineering with grant, personnel, and project management to deliver robust, scalable research applications and reproducible data workflows. Her background includes building web applications, network analysis and text-mining tools, GIS visualizations, and data governance practices informed by data ethics and regulations. Adept at coordinating cross-campus teams and external funders, she translates complex research requirements into practical technical solutions and clear communication for diverse stakeholders. Unusually for a research manager, she retains significant day-to-day engineering expertise—testing, documenting, publishing, and training users on the tools she helps create. She holds dual master's degrees in Computer Science and Library & Information Science and brings a consistent track record of supporting interdisciplinary research from design through data archiving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, GPA = 3.83, Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, GPA = 3.83 at National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
text-mining10
network-analysis10
java9
sentiment-analysis7
incremental-learning7
machine-learning-algorithms6
user-interface4
ui-control2
mobile-application2
python2
openjfx1
data-visualization1
javafx1
data-science1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hackillinois-reversepitch/HackIllinois-2018
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
uiuc-ischool-scanr/ConText
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
constructing network data from text data
Contributions:3 releases, 25 commits, 28 pushes in 5 years 4 months
network-constructiontext-miningnetwork-analysisjava
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