Columbia University computer science alumnus (B.S. 2022; M.S. 2023). I build backend infrastructure, observability, reliability, and data systems, with recent work across telemetry SDKs, MCP/agent tooling, data engines, API conformance, and CI.
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Research records updated October 5, 2026. Published work, accepted papers, and public preprints are listed with explicit status labels. Conference papers can appear before proceedings publication.
- Diversified but Crowded: Evidence from 13F Holdings — Liang Hu and Yinru Shen. Finance Research Letters, Accepted October 5, 2026. SJR Q1 · 2025 · CiteScore 10.1 / JIF 7.1 · publisher display. Author manuscript PDF.
- AI-Enhanced Financial NLP for Bitcoin Return Variation Prediction: Timestamp-Aware Evidence From Trump’s Tweets — Liang Hu and Yinru Shen. IEEE Access, 14: 88558–88565. 2026; Published. SJR Q1 · 2025 · CiteScore 9.3 / JIF 4.2 · 2025. DOI.
- A predictive analytics approach for forecasting global stock index returns using deep learning techniques — Liang Hu and Yinru Shen. Decision Analytics Journal, 18: 100685. 2026; Published. SJR Q1 · 2025. DOI. Earlier preprint (2024).
SJR quartiles use SCImago subject categories and are distinct from JCR quartiles. Metrics above describe the venues; “publisher display” means the readable publisher listing does not state the metric year. Sources checked October 5, 2026.
- Auditing Search Before Content Verification: A Manifest-Gated Study of YouTube API Availability and Stability — Liang Hu. 12th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2026), Application Track; Accepted · Proceedings pending. November 4–6, 2026; Milpitas / San Jose, California, USA. Joint IEEE conference event: CIC · CogMI · TPS · RISC, covering internet collaboration, cognitive AI, trust and privacy, and security of critical systems.
- Bridge Alerts for Institutional Portfolio Similarity Networks: An Explainable Monitoring Framework — Liang Hu and Yinru Shen. 38th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2026), Full paper; Accepted · Proceedings pending. CCF C · 2026 · ICORE B · 2026. November 2–4, 2026; Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
- An Explainable AI Audit of Search Visibility Signals in Shorts-Like Short-Form Videos — Liang Hu. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Interdisciplinary Applications (ISAIA 2026); Accepted · Proceedings pending. Conference: October 9–10, 2026; Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
- AI Decision Support for Sector-Conditioned Portfolio Similarity Monitoring in Financial Services — Liang Hu. 2nd International Conference on AI and Emerging Technology for Sustainable Future (ICAISF 2026); Accepted · Proceedings pending. Conference: July 24–25, 2026; Catania, Italy.
- Robot learning-enhanced tree-based algorithms for kinodynamic motion planning: A comparative analysis — Liang Hu. 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Machine Learning (CONF-SEML 2024) · Applied and Computational Engineering, 76(1): 65–71. 2024; Published. DOI.
- Conducting Mission-Critical Voice Experiments with Automated Speech Recognition and Crowdsourcing — arXiv, 2509.13724. 2025; Preprint. DOI. arXiv.
- AI-driven Financial Forecasting: Integrating Financial NLP, Deep Learning, and Timestamp-aware Market Analytics — Liang Hu. World Virtual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cybersecurity. Scheduled October 6, 2026, online; 17:20–17:45 CEST / 11:20–11:45 New York. Listed as a presentation, separately from proceedings publications.
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53 external pull requests merged since July 2026.
| Project | Merged work | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry | Twelve JavaScript, Java, and documentation contributions | Corrects sampling and flush behavior, adds per-call timeout controls, documents exporter and .NET provider behavior, stabilizes benchmark CI, deprecates the OpenCensus shim API, and marks logger configuration experimental |
| Parallel Code | Sixteen merged improvements | Improves accessibility, review workflows, task coverage, UI reliability, and migration behavior |
| FINOS FDC3 | Eight conformance, documentation, and runtime fixes | Improves channel lifecycle behavior, error coverage, discovery reliability, and normal-scenario logging |
| CAMARA | Six API tooling and specification fixes | Strengthens OpenAPI linting, discriminator handling, notification conformance, access-token error guidance, version placeholders, and generated artifact stability |
| Polars | Two merged Rust fixes | Propagates the bigidx feature correctly and prevents a union-slice panic |
| Perspective | Persist datagrid column widths | Preserves plugin-owned column configuration across workspace save and first restore |
| FastMCP | Preserve raw CallToolResult returns |
Protects protocol-level metadata and structured tool-result semantics |
| Apache Arrow | Modernize Archery version handling | Removes reliance on a private setuptools_scm API and preserves release tooling compatibility |
| OpenInference | Four merged JavaScript and AWS SDK fixes | Enforces type-aware lint rules and prevents AWS SDK type-only imports from becoming runtime ESM dependencies |
- CAMARA Commonalities #704 - corrected the initial public API version placeholder guidance.
- CAMARA Commonalities #689 - clarified missing-identifier error descriptions for access tokens.
- Perspective #3215 - persisted datagrid column widths through workspace save and first restore.
- OpenTelemetry.io #11404 - clarified how .NET
ActivitySourceregistration connects instrumentation to a provider. - OpenTelemetry.io #11403 - clarified the intended application-lifetime ownership of .NET
TracerProviderinstances. - Parallel Code #263 - added local ESLint quality findings to the review workflow with actionable error handling and an explicit refresh control.
- OpenTelemetry JS #6996 - marked logger configuration experimental and closed the related API-stability issue.
- OpenTelemetry JS #6997 - incorporated and extended my
headers_listexporter work from #6955 across all log, metric, and trace exporter paths. - OpenTelemetry Java #8674 - deprecated the OpenCensus shim public API.
- OpenTelemetry.io #10713 - documented Java exporter self-monitoring metrics.
- OpenInference #3463 - fixed Bedrock ESM runtime imports.
- OpenInference #3532 - enforced the remaining type-aware JavaScript lint rules.
- OpenInference #3566 - enforced safe type assertions across the JavaScript packages.
- OpenInference #3561 - enforced promise and method lint rules across the JavaScript packages.
- Parallel Code #257 - increased terminal wheel-scroll sensitivity across desktop and remote terminals.
- Parallel Code #245 - added an opt-in terminal screen-reader mode.
- OpenTelemetry SDK correctness and telemetry pipelines
- Python and TypeScript backend infrastructure
- API validation, CI reliability, and regression testing
- Financial technology interoperability and data systems