Andy (Hao Yang) Lu Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Working on trading infrastructure and trading platform• Core Python team

Menlo Park, California, United States

• Instagram teenager safety team

• Worked in Google Maps• Designed, prototyped, and implemented new full-stack data asset loading infrastructure that had minimal impact on start-up time and other important system health metrics. • The infrastructure allows easy and efficient handling of animating images, with a fully asynchronous asset caching system on the iOS client.

Houston, Texas Area

• Teaching assistant for COMP140: computational thinking and COMP182: algorithmic thinking.• Hold office hours and help students with algorithm and coding problems.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Chrome team• Contributed to the Chromium project.• Designed and implemented a new Siri shortcut for Chrome iOS. Modified the existing shortcuts to improve their user-friendliness and functionalities. Currently used by millions of users. • Designed and implemented new Chrome enterprise policies for Chrome iOS enterprise users.

• Worked in the Customer Trust team to integrate review abuse detection algorithms into native AWS services such as S3, EMR, Dynamo DB, and SageMaker. Obtained deeper knowledge into AWS services and architecture. • Used SQL extensively for backend data query and used Spark to process large amount of text data. Rewrote the Spark code in the code base and was able to decrease execution time by 55 - 60%. • Created data pipelines using Java and Python that will automatically transfer over 100,000 reviews daily into the abuse detection algorithm, collect the results, feed the result to reviews for further verification, and store the results into databases accordingly, which significantly decreases the amount of repetitive work for data scientists.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Successfully developed a protocol for mice cardiac cells isolation which extended the cell survival time from 24 hours to over 72 hours.• Developed an in-vitro screening system for identifying potential drug candidates for cardiac diseases ,which can significantly reduce the time cost associated with testing a new drug compound.•Provided project update to the group members weekly and delivered a final presentation to the entire company of 300 people.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Magna Cum Laude

International Baccalaureate