Cheng Shi
Associate Director Data Scientist
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Shi is an Associate Director Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building AI and ML solutions for healthcare and wellness, currently leading data science efforts at Novartis from Shanghai. He holds a PhD in machine learning from UT Dallas and has a track record of translating research—probabilistic graphical models, time-series prediction, and deep learning—into clinical-grade algorithms such as cardiac arrhythmia classifiers. Cheng combines strong engineering skills in big data ingestion and visualization with applied medical AI, having shipped production systems at AMI Monitoring and enterprise analytics at FedEx. Known as an AI engineer on GitHub, he bridges academic rigor and product delivery, often focusing on interpretable models for clinical decision support.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (34)
jquery10
wechat10
vue10
react10
react-native9
javascript9
zone9
wechat-mini-program9
typescript9
trading4
deep-learning3
deep-reinforcement-learning3
server-side3
rendering3
trading-bot3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cderek/cderek.github.io
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
marsczen/taro-mini-ci
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:83 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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