Summary
Chihua Ma is a Director of Visual Analytics in Decision Sciences at Epsilon with 11 years of experience turning complex data into actionable visual stories. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois Chicago, Chihua blends deep research experience—building web-based D3/Three.js visualizations for cancer therapy, brain networks, and stochastic simulations—with hands-on leadership scaling analytics teams and products. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Epsilon, designing interactive, multivariate visual tools that bridge domain experts and data engineers. Comfortable in C++, Python, R and modern JavaScript visualization stacks, he pairs rigorous quantitative analysis with production-ready visualization design. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring and for translating ensemble and temporal data challenges into intuitive, comparative interfaces that drive precision decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Nankai University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Chinese