Anthea Cheung
Senior Applied Scientist at Etsy
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthea Cheung is a Senior Applied Scientist in San Francisco with a PhD in Mathematics and a decade of experience translating advanced math and ML research into production at companies like Etsy and Amazon. She combines deep theoretical training from Boston University with hands-on applied work—building models and data-driven systems that address interdisciplinary problems across e-commerce and natural language domains. Her background includes academic research, industry fellowships, and early NLP engineering experience at Nuance, giving her uncommon fluency in both rigorous modeling and production constraints. Known for clear communication of complex quantitative ideas, she specializes in turning mathematical insight into actionable product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Wellesley CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Boston University
Github Skills (10)
connectivity9
electrophysiology8
computational-neuroscience8
neurons7
python7
neuroscience7
machine-learning6
data-analysis6
data-science5
pandas5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ahccheung/resume
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
ahccheung/CART
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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