Yao Liu

Yao Liu has work experience as a Software Engineer at StarTree since August 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Google/YouTube as a Software Engineer from March 2016 to August 2022. Before joining Google/YouTube, they worked as a C++ Programmer at the Solar and Hemispheric Research Group, University of Michigan, from August 2014 to December 2014. During this time, they designed an API to support decoding, archiving, and retrieving data from detectors in NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. They also developed and optimized an ion analysis process and performed unit tests for APIs. Yao Liu also has experience as a Software Engineer Intern at the Strategic Reasoning Group, University of Michigan, where they designed and tested interfaces in Ruby on Rails, implemented a database, and implemented a game learning algorithm using Gaussian Regression Model in Python.

Yao Liu pursued their Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Operations Management from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics from 2009 to 2013. Subsequently, they attended the University of Michigan - School of Information, where they obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree in Information Science/Studies from 2013 to 2015.