Chen
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorEdwin Chen is a Ph.D.-trained data scientist and statistician with nine years of experience building and leading ML-driven teams across Silicon Valley, now CEO of Surge AI where he tackled the overlooked bottleneck in AI: signal quality and human evaluation at scale. His career spans research and leadership roles at Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter, directing core science, experimentation platforms, and ads integrity efforts that blend rigorous statistics with product impact. He cut his teeth in algorithmic trading and foundational research at MIT CSAIL, bringing deep expertise in computational linguistics, topology, and complexity to practical ML systems. Known for translating academic rigor into production-grade evaluation pipelines, he combines hands-on technical depth with strategic product vision from a base in San Francisco.
9 years of coding experienceGithub contributions (5)
tukichen/Bayesian_AB_testing
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
tukichen/Machine-Learning
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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