Alexander Yang
Data Scientist
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Yang is a data scientist with 12 years of experience applying machine learning and computational modeling across finance, e-commerce, and drug discovery. He builds production forecasting and time-series pipelines at Stripe and previously developed large-scale ML systems for product eligibility at Amazon and therapeutic modeling at Merck. Trained as a PhD chemical engineer, he combines physics-based simulation expertise and open-source contributions to molecular modeling with practical ML productization in the cloud. Comfortable translating domain knowledge into deployed models, he excels at collaboration with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to solve ambiguous problems. An unusual strength is his ability to bridge coarse-grained molecular simulation methods and modern data-science tooling, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions from molecule to market.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Economics (double major), Computer Science (minor), Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Economics (double major), Computer Science (minor) at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (51)
component-based10
simulation10
molecule10
particle-system10
hierarchical10
molecular-simulation10
python10
singularity9
openlibrary9
simulator9
mdanalysis9
computational-chemistry9
topology9
docker9
molecular-dynamics-simulation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ahy3nz/setup
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:12 PRs, 332 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 8 months
ahy3nz/ffdraftbuddy
Aug 2023 - Jul 2026
Fantasy football draft tool to understand positional advantage and opportunity
Contributions:101 PRs, 138 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 10 months
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