Li-Yen Hsu

Li-Yen Hsu, PhD, is a seasoned Senior Machine Learning Engineer currently at Waymo since September 2025, with prior experience at CLARA Analytics and C3 AI, where roles included Lead Data Scientist and Senior Data Scientist. Li-Yen's early career includes positions at Lumiata, where responsibilities spanned from Data Scientist to Staff Data Scientist, and a Data Science internship at Mosss. Academic credentials include a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, along with Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Physics from National Taiwan University. Additionally, Li-Yen served as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Astronomy and as a Visiting Graduate Research Fellow at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech.