Liren Chen biography: 13 things about Santa Clara, California software engineer

Liren Chen is a Chinese-American man from Santa Clara, California, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. His wife Xuanyi Yu is also Chinese.
2. He and Yu were born in the same year.
3. From 2014 to 2018, he attended Tsinghua University (清华大学) in Haidian, Beijing, China where he earned his bachelor’s degree.
4. In September 2015, he competed a matrix laboratory (MATLAB) course.
5. In October 2015, he completed a course on interactive programming in Python.
6. From September 2017 to July 2018, he was a computer vision research intern at SenseTime in Beijing, China.
7. From 2018 to 2019, he attended the University of California, San Diego in San Diego, California where he earned his master’s degree in computer science.
8. From June 2019 to December 2019, he was a software engineer intern at TuSimple in San Diego.
9. He, Yu, Charmaine Beluso, Anfeng Xu, Eamon Patamasing, Brian Sebastian, Eric Lo, Curt Schurgers, Ryan Kastner, Dan Sturm and Robert Barlow authored “D-SEA: The Underwater Depth Sensing Device for Standalone Time-Averaged Measurements”, which was published in November 2019 during the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers‘ 16th international conference on mobile ad hoc and sensor systems workshops in Monterey, California.
10. In March 2020, he joined Google in Mountain View, California as a software engineer and worked on the YouTube Shorts recommendation algorithm.
11. In April 2023, he and Yu bought a house on Valley Way in Santa Clara for $2,050,000.
12. At 10:55 a.m. on January 16, 2024, Santa Clara Police Department officers arrived at their residence in Santa Clara to conduct a welfare check, found Yu dead and took him into custody.
13. He was 27 years old when he was arrested on January 16, 2024. He was charged with murder.

Santa Clara Resident, Liren Chen, Charged with Wife’s Murder. https://t.co/DjKW2jldHY

— Santa Clara Police (@SantaClaraPD) January 19, 2024