Professional headshot of Dr. Yi Yu (Bruce) Liu in a charcoal suit and glasses.

About Me

EdTech · learning products · responsible AI

I focus on educational technology—translating learning goals into pragmatic products alongside teaching data science at the university level. My work blends discovery and delivery: AI-assisted tooling, learner-focused UX, NLP and document intelligence where they improve outcomes, and reliable full-stack implementations from prototype to operations.


Email:

yiyubruceliu@gmail.com

Whatsapp:

+43(660) 347 9079

Freelance:

Available

Coffee:

Addicted

My Experience

Higher education, assessment-focused EdTech, and enterprise delivery — four highlights.

Co‑Founder & CTO

PerspectiveMind AI • Nov 2024 – Current

Building a proctored oral assessment platform (EdTech)—React/Flask, speech and vision models, Faster Whisper, ElevenLabs, WebRTC, Socket.IO.

AI Platform Architect & Data Science Lecturer

Modul University of Vienna • Sept 2023 – Current

Built PUMA — a 150K-SLOC university management platform from concept to production. Redesigned courses adopted as department standards. Voted Professor of the Year 2026.

Technology Strategist

TypeDev • Jan 2020 – Jan 2026

Led enterprise-scale BA, process engineering, and delivery across Discovery Financial Services & IoDSA. Scaled a 4-to-11-person team as Scrum Master. Drove the company's first EU market expansion (EUR 840k FFG grant).

Senior Business Analyst (Serviced)

Discovery • May 2021 – Dec 2023

Led complex enterprise initiatives (e.g., eBoarding) with heavy integration analysis, user journeys, user stories, and stakeholder alignment.

Full experience & employers

Selected Work

Selected projects spanning AI, EdTech, and full-stack delivery.

PerspectiveMind AI

perspectivemind.ai • Nov 2024 – Current

Proctored oral assessment platform — React/Flask, speech and vision models, Faster Whisper, ElevenLabs, WebRTC, Socket.IO, MongoDB.

Unwritten.click

unwrittenclick.com • May 2026 – Current

Monetised AI storytelling platform — LLM narrative engine, WebSocket multiplayer, in-game economy, and payments. From concept to paying customers in under 2 months.
Fine-tuned Qwen 0.5B model for voice command intent classification — published on Hugging Face for the community.
Pet adoption matching platform — connecting pets with suitable homes through data-driven compatibility scoring.

All projects

Publications & Patents

Peer-reviewed research and granted intellectual property.

Austrian Patent AT 529302

Multi-layered Knowledge Validation System for Academic Integrity

Austrian Patent AT 529302 • Espacenet • 2026

Granted patent covering a multi-layered system for validating knowledge and safeguarding academic integrity in assessment.
Sage journal article on overall financial viability and entrepreneurial intention

The Impact of Overall Financial Viability on Entrepreneurial Intention in South Africa

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies (Sage) • 2026

Peer-reviewed study extending the entrepreneurial potential model: overall financial viability as an antecedent of perceived feasibility, tested via structural equation modelling (N=306). DOI: 10.1177/23939575261495211.
IEEE ICTAS 2017 conference paper

Role Multiplicity of #FeesMustFall Students: Role Differentiation Analysis of Twitter Data

2017 Conference on Information Communication Technology and Society (ICTAS), IEEE • 2017

Role-theory analysis of online activism during South Africa's #FeesMustFall movement. Co-authored with M. Hattingh and S. Eybers.
More publications coming soon

More on the way

Research & patents in progress

More publications and filings are in the pipeline — check back soon.

Google Scholar profile

How I Can Help

EdTech and learning-focused delivery—tell me about your learners, constraints, and success metrics.

Course and programme sites, info architecture, Bootstrap or component libraries—readable, accessible UX for learners and faculty.

EdTech Applications

Custom learning tools: assessment workflows, dashboards, integrations—typically Python/Flask, React/Next.js, or C# where it fits existing stacks.

Data · Integrations

Backend services, OData/SQL pipelines, institutional data guardrails—the plumbing that lets EdTech scale without surprises.

Learning UX · Discovery

Learner and educator journeys, journey maps, requirements and specs from ideation through handoff—strategy aligned with instructional intent.

Recommendations

Voices from collaborators and students — more on LinkedIn.

“He brings academic depth, entrepreneurial insight, and practical delivery together in a way that elevates every project. Discovery entered development with fully formed requirements — and almost no rework.”

Hanno van der Merwe Digital strategy · TypeDEV

“An outstanding professor — clear with complex ideas, encouraging independence, and genuinely dedicated to students’ success beyond the classroom.”

Clarissa Wölfer Former student

“He made complex topics approachable and linked theory to practice. Patient mentorship that left no one behind — and a lasting impact on how I work with data.”

Samaira Hassan Applied Data Science student

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Contact Me

If you would like to grab a cup of coffee, let me know. I have Gold status at Starbucks so we can have a fulfilled conversation.

Vienna, Austria

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+43 (660) 347 9079

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yiyubruceliu@gmail.com

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