Ben Xiao
Data Scientist - Clinical Data Specialist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Xiao is a data scientist and clinical data specialist in San Francisco with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience blending biology, game theory, and analytics. At BioMarin he partners with clinical teams to design data quality metrics and interactive visualizations that streamline study workflows and surface actionable problems. Trained as a molecular biologist and holding a 3.97 MS in Data Science from Northwestern, he brings rigorous statistical thinking to complex biomedical datasets. His background as a professional poker player and gaming-data analyst informs a strong edge in probabilistic reasoning, decision theory, and KPI design. Comfortable coding, teaching, and presenting, he excels at translating technical analyses into clear operational improvements for clinical research.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, 3.97, Master's degree, Data Science, 3.97 at Northwestern UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
espn10
nba-api10
api-client10
api9
http-client9
python8
python-client5
statistics4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SpecCRA/dand_project03_data_cleaning
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
SpecCRA/nba_data_scrapers
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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