Elias Shieh
Ting-Hong (Elias) Shieh
I design products and write the code for them.
I taught olympiad physics for four years; my students won three IPhO golds and a silver. Then I joined a gas-detection distributor and had four months to learn the field from nothing. In 2026 my team of four was first of 373 Taiwan teams on the Stage 2-1 leaderboard of WorldQuant's IQC, and I started sending fixes to open-source projects: 65 merged so far, 14 of them into NVIDIA NeMo.
Now Master of Computer Science at UIUC, online, part-time. Looking for hard, interesting problems, in product, software or research, where I can both design the thing and build it. I'm based in Taiwan; I can work remotely or relocate with visa sponsorship, and start about a month after an offer. Updated .
Stories
2026A quant competition, and the signals I cut55 of the 60 signals in our final portfolio were mine. I turned down about twenty more, and each one cost somebody money.
In the 2026 WorldQuant IQC, four of us built signals for one portfolio. Fifty-five of the sixty in the final portfolio were mine, and I turned down about twenty more.
We had agreed at the start to split any prize by number of submissions, so every signal I cut took money out of someone's pocket.
On the Stage 2-1 leaderboard, out-of-sample included, we were first of 373 Taiwan teams and 32nd in the world.
2021–25Teaching olympiad physicsFour years, three IPhO golds and a silver, and what I learned about wrong answers.
For four years I taught olympiad physics at 物奧土魠 (IPhO Tutor), run by BeShawn, the three-person company I started. My students went on to win three IPhO golds and one silver.
What I learned there: a student stays calm in front of a problem he has never seen only if he believes it is safe to say something stupid.
I stopped in 2025. AI was changing what a tutor is for, and what I had set out to do was done. I wanted to learn something new, which is what took me to UIUC.
2025–26Four months to learn gas detectionIndustrial gas detection from nothing, then a tool the manufacturer agreed to build part of.
At Everrist I had four months to learn industrial gas detection from nothing: how the sensors work, the certifications, the protocols. Then I had to turn it into something a buyer could decide with, and persuade the manufacturer's R&D team in Korea to adopt a gas-selection tool covering more than 840 substances. They agreed to build part of it.
I left in March 2026 to look for a bigger stage.
2016–24A degree that took seven and a half yearsI paused my EE degree to start a company.
My electrical engineering degree at National Taiwan University took seven and a half years, because I stopped partway to start BeShawn. I'm now doing a Master of Computer Science at UIUC, online, part-time.
The record
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignOnline, part-time.
GitHub65 pull requests merged upstream, 14 of them into NVIDIA NeMo.
WorldQuant IQC, NTU team1st of 373 Taiwan teams and 32nd globally on the Stage 2-1 leaderboard, out-of-sample included.
Everrist InternationalProduct page, ad, catalog and prototypes.
物奧土魠 IPhO TutorStudents went on to win three IPhO golds and one silver. Run by BeShawn (畢上), my three-person company.
3rd of 1,170 teams in Speaker Classification.
National Taiwan University