Boyan Duan
Senior Data Scientist
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBoyan Duan is a Senior Data Scientist at Google Ads with a decade of experience applying statistical rigor to real-world product problems. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon, where he worked with Aaditya Ramdas and Larry Wasserman on interactive methods that combine machine and human intelligence for hypothesis testing. At Google he has progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist, translating advanced inference techniques into scalable solutions for advertising systems. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep theoretical expertise with product-oriented experimentation and deployment. A detail that sets him apart is his focus on interactive methodologies—bridging classical statistics and modern ML—to make hypothesis testing more adaptable and human-in-the-loop.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Statistics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github contributions (5)
duanby/duanby.github.io
Mar 2020 - Apr 2025
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