Dora Dong
Director, Data Science
California, United States
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Top SchoolDora Dong is a Director of Data Science at Visa with 8 years of experience applying statistics and machine learning to real-world problems across payments and healthcare. She combines hands-on expertise in ETL, visualization, regression/classification, decision trees, clustering and RNNs with a strong statistical foundation from an MS in Statistics. A proven people leader who progressed from Statistician to Director within Visa, she focuses on coaching teams, making processes repeatable, and delivering production-ready models. Comfortable with Python, R, SQL and SPSS, Dora also maintains a public portfolio that highlights pragmatic project work and reproducible analyses. Notably, her background in survey design and hypothesis testing informs a data-driven approach to product and experimental decisions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at Hebei Agricultural University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WomenInDataScience-Seattle/Data-Science-Study-Group
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
WiDS-Machine Learning Study Group
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
widsmachine-learning-studymachine-learningstudy-group
DataCircles/FortuneCookie
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:18 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
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