Alex Cao
Senior Data Scientist
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cao is a Senior Data Scientist with 10 years of experience applying ML, data engineering, and robotics expertise to transportation and autonomous vehicle systems. Based in Ann Arbor, he currently turns terabytes of streaming AV data into actionable insights at May Mobility, leveraging AWS and big-data tooling to support stakeholders and fleet operations. His background blends academic and industry work—from predictive maintenance for helicopters and aerospace engineering to building connected-vehicle dashboards, CNNs for street-attribute detection, and public-health/traffic visualizations at the University of Michigan. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions: data pipelines, APIs, interactive dashboards, and production models—often integrating geospatial analysis and empirical Bayes exposure modeling. Notably, he has taught workshops and created tooling to make large-scale Spark and NLP workflows reproducible for researchers, showing a talent for translating complex data systems into usable products.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Mechanical Engineering, MSE, Mechanical Engineering at University of MichiganBEng, Aerospace Engineering, BEng, Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (18)
crf7
nlp5
sos5
dot5
strings5
machine-learning4
unstructured4
address-parser4
natural-language-processing4
parsing4
python4
parse3
parser3
flask3
exposure3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
caocscar/gitcheatsheet
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
CSCAR/twitter-decahose
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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