Cenzhuo Yao
Principal Data Scientist
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCenzhuo Yao is a Principal Data Scientist with a decade-plus track record building high-impact ML systems at Microsoft, Uber, ByteDance/TikTok, and now Microsoft AI, and 8 years of hands-on industry experience. He has led teams and shipped monetization, delivery, and measurement solutions that unlocked tens of millions in revenue and savings across ads and marketplace products, while navigating privacy-first constraints like iOS signal limitations. A skilled applied scientist and manager, he combines statistical rigor from a UC Berkeley MA in Statistics with product-minded experimentation—authoring multiple AI tooling patents early in his career. He’s fluent in bridging research and production: from demand forecasting and airport dispatch innovations to large-scale ads bidding and identity/signal engineering. Based in Hangzhou but hiring across US and China, he blends global product experience with a concise personal ethos—君子不器—that hints at a focus on principled versatility over narrow specialization.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Statistics, Master of Arts - MA Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (86)
rtsp10
hevc10
serverless10
microservices10
streaming10
matroska10
audio10
scale10
high-performance10
thrift10
protobuf10
grpc10
database10
ffmpeg10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bodhisatan/bodhisatan
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
bodhisatan/stitch-backend
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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