Yu Wu
Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYu Wu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade HCI and educational-technology insights with production-scale systems at companies like Google and PayPal. Currently leading vertical query understanding and ranking at Google, he has a strong track record building data pipelines, ML models, and consumer-finance products using Spark, Kafka, TensorFlow/Keras and NLP tooling. His PhD work involved large-scale GitHub data analysis and tooling for curation, reflecting a persistent interest in helping engineers find relevant resources and improving developer workflows. Comfortable across full-stack, data engineering, and ML, he brings both academic rigor and practical delivery to complex problems and has repeatedly moved prototypes into real product features. An often-overlooked strength is his background in designing learning systems and MOOC interactions, which informs a user-centered approach to algorithmic decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Tongji UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Human Computer Interaction at Penn State University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
213reputation
15kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (52)
python10
data-science10
go10
golang10
javascript9
java9
interpreter9
unicorns9
vue9
dropdown9
github-repos9
rust9
cpp9
creative-commons9
compiler8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chaconnewu/free-data-science-books
Nov 2013 - Oct 2018
Free resources for learning data science
Contributions:62 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 11 months
data-science
chaconnewu/jsalgorithm
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javascript
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