Hien-haw Liow
Software Developer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHien-haw Liow is a software developer at Google with eight years of experience who brings a PhD-level foundation in mathematics and computational modeling to production software. His background spans statistical modeling, machine learning, bioinformatics and linguistics, with hands-on research in gene network inference, RNA-Seq analysis, and Bayesian approaches developed during graduate work at Washington University in St. Louis. He combines rigorous quantitative training with practical engineering at scale, translating complex data-analysis workflows into robust software solutions. Comfortable teaching and mentoring from his TA experience, he also has a track record of peer-reviewing bioinformatics preprints and building reproducible pipelines for genomic data. Based in New York, he is adaptable to interdisciplinary teams that bridge research and product engineering. A detail that sets him apart is his ability to move seamlessly between theoretical model development and the data-wrangling realities of genome-scale analytics.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Mathematics, 3.72, Bachelor's degree, Computational Mathematics, 3.72 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, 3.75, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, 3.75 at Washington University in St. Louis
Japanese, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Hebrew, Italian
Github Skills (12)
steamvr10
virtual-reality10
openvr10
kinect10
openxr10
phonetics7
cjk5
similarity5
nlp3
natural-language-processing3
dedicated-server2
azerothcore2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hhliow/ValheimGameLibs
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Pubblicized and stripped assemblies for Valheim modding
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
hhliow/vhvr-mod
Dec 2021 - Jul 2025
Adds VR support to the PC game Valheim
Contributions:1 review, 35 PRs, 511 pushes in 3 years 8 months
valheimvrchatpc-game
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