Summary
Charissa Ding is a Staff Research and Development Engineer based in Beijing with eight years of experience applying data science, product analytics, and engineering to real-world systems across tech and aerospace. With an MS from Columbia and a BS in Math/Economics from UCLA, she has moved from analytics and data engineering roles at Meta and Unity to building vision-based deep learning algorithms and managing demonstrator projects for flight automation at COMAC. Her background spans the full analytics lifecycle—data pipelines, BI, statistical modeling and applied AI—paired with hands-on project management and cross-functional coordination. Notably, she has bridged policy, healthcare and commercial product domains, delivering interpretable models (e.g., in AMR and marketing mix optimization) and scalable pipelines for e-commerce and marketplace growth. Colleagues rely on her for both technical rigor and team-building that turns complex research into production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science Institute, Master of Science - MS Data Science Institute at Columbia University
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, French