Chao Cen
Senior Data Scientist
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolChao Cen is a Senior Data Scientist based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with seven years of experience applying quantitative methods across finance and tech. Currently at Facebook, he focuses on ads ranking and community integrity, translating large-scale signals into robust, production-ready models. Previously he led credit risk analytics at Capital One and worked on structured products consulting at PwC, giving him deep domain expertise in risk, finance, and regulatory-aware modeling. He holds advanced degrees in finance and computer science from the University of Maryland and Georgia Tech, combining rigorous financial intuition with strong engineering and ML foundations. Known for bridging academic rigor and product impact, he excels at turning complex risk problems into scalable, auditable solutions. A cross-disciplinary thinker, he brings both credit-risk discipline and large-scale systems experience to data-driven product decisions.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Bachelor's degree, Accounting at Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe University of Maryland, College Park
English, chineses
Github Skills (12)
stream9
network8
networking8
messaging8
pubsub7
concurrency7
zeromq7
io-uring7
rdma6
bazel6
infiniband5
mpi3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
cenzhao/rccl
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
ROCm Communication Collectives Library (RCCL)
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
facebook/openr
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Distributed platform for building autonomic network functions.
Contributions:4 releases, 3 tags, 1 comment in 6 months
bazelc-plus-plusnetwork-functionsdistributed
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