Christina Chung
Advisor at MentorNet
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Chung is an experienced technologist and product leader with 11 years driving personalization, search, recommendation, and digital media products across Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Chegg, and Stanford research. She has repeatedly translated data science into product impact—leading efforts that produced multi-fold gains in engagement and measurable ranking improvements. At Chegg she defined a multi-year discovery strategy and achieved a 4x increase in search engagement, and at Yahoo! her teams delivered double-digit relevance and revenue uplifts. Based in Sunnyvale, she blends academic rigor (Ph.D. in Computer Science) with hands-on platform and analytics ownership, and currently advises MentorNet on mentoring platform design and program content. Less obvious is her combination of behavioral-targeting research and cognitive neuroscience work, which gives her a unique edge in designing systems that model real human behavior.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of California, DavisThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sweetflute/goal-boggle-public
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
sweetflute/tgt-dev
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:24 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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