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Xuanyi Yu was a Chinese-American software engineer who lived in Santa Clara, California, United States. Here are 13 more things about her:
- Her husband Liren Chen is also Chinese.
- Aside from Santa Clara, she lived in other parts of California including La Jolla.
- She and Chen were born in the same year.
- From 2014 to 2018, she attended Tsinghua University (清华大学) in Haidian, Beijing, China where she earned her bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering.
- From March 2018 to July 2018, she was a research assistant at Tsinghua University.
- In September 2018, she entered the graduate school of the University of California, San Diego in San Diego, California
- From June 2019 to September 2019, she was a software development engineer intern at Amazon in San Diego.
- She, Chen, 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.
- From February 2020 to June 2021, she was a software development engineer at Amazon in San Diego.
- In June 2020, she graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a master’s degree in computer science.
- In June 2021, she joined Google in Mountain View, California as a software engineer.
- In April 2023, she and Chen bought a house on Valley Way in Santa Clara for $2,050,000.
- 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 her dead and took Chen into custody. She was 27.
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