Emma Zhou
Cofounder at Science
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Zhou is a founder and data science leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and analytics platforms from startup SaaS to global enterprises. Based in San Francisco, she launched Luxentec after leading GenAI and end-to-end data science initiatives at Boston Scientific that delivered real-time market insights, campaign measurement, and MLOps pipelines. Previously she scaled analytics and feature stores at Putnam Investments, modernized data stacks at Epsilon, and shipped customer-facing UX improvements earlier in her career, blending product intuition with engineering rigor. Her hands-on contributions include front-end UX enhancements to Medium’s snowflake visualization, highlighting a rare mix of visualization craft and production ML operations. Emma holds a master’s in statistics from Columbia and is known for turning complex analytics into actionable, revenue-driving products.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics Computer Science, BA Mathematics Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
d3js10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
webclient9
user-interface9
jquery8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Medium/snowflake
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Medium's engineering growth visualization tool
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Emma primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and visual elements of the "snowflake" visualization tool. They added new UI components, implemented arrow key navigation for interactive data exploration, and integrated level descriptions for improved user understanding. Key contributions also included modifying and expanding existing components, such as the radar chart and its associated elements. These changes aimed to improve the interactivity and usability of the application.
engineeringmediumgrowth-engineeringvisualization
emmazhou/memex
Oct 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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