Summary
Chao Song is a Senior Applied Scientist based in Bellevue, WA with eight years of experience applying machine learning and probabilistic modeling to large-scale retail and advertising problems. He has driven substitution-aware assortment planning and million-by-million substitution-effect modeling at Amazon, and previously led demand forecasting, pricing-sensitivity, and assortment-optimization work for Sam’s Club that scaled to millions of members. With a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, he blends rigorous mathematical foundations and manifold-learning insights with practical engineering to deliver scalable production models and optimization heuristics. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has a track record of speeding up optimization solvers and designing metrics that tie models to business impact. An understated strength is his background in fast high-dimensional query structures and numerical solvers, which informs efficient modeling choices in production ML.
8 years of coding experience