Alex Zhao
Data Scientist
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zhao is a data scientist with a Ph.D. in statistics and about a decade of experience building and shipping predictive and inferential models across fintech, retail, gaming, and consulting. At Wealthfront he focuses on growth analytics, and previously at BCG/BCG X he delivered production-grade ML pipelines and optimization solutions—forecasting billions in spend, generating tens of millions of personalized offers, and identifying new portfolio locations. His academic work on high-dimensional inference and hypothesis testing informs robust modeling choices in GLMs and partial linear models, while hands-on NLP, bioinformatics, and A/B testing experience enable practical, explainable results. Alex combines deep statistical theory with cloud-scale engineering (Azure, PySpark, Databricks) and has a track record of turning complex research into performant, deployable systems. An understated strength is his history of teaching and clear technical communication, having lectured large undergraduate courses and written reproducible research and software for high-performance computing environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Arts Economics, Bachelor of Arts Economics at University of Chicago
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
firefox-addon4
passwords4
chrome-extension4
javascript3
keepass3
vue3
password-manager3
browser-extension2
tabbing2
firefox2
browser2
python1
pelican1
static-site1
site-generator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yazhao/PSUPhdGrads
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
yazhao/PSU_Thesis
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The Penn State University thesis class file and template for use with LaTeX. Version last updated on July 10, 2019 by Professor Gary Gray and formerly found at https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/psu-latex-thesis-class.html
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 6 months
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