Eric Pan
Data Scientist
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Pan is a data scientist with a decade of experience blending academic rigor and product-focused analytics, currently driving WhatsApp growth at Meta. He holds an MS in Analytics from Northwestern and a BE from Tsinghua (with exchange at Georgia Tech), and brings deep expertise in machine learning, time series, NLP, and operations research. His background spans end-to-end engineering—ETL and web-scraping pipelines on AWS, Airflow/Docker deployments, and full-stack data platforms—built during roles at Balyasny, Coupa, and Opex Analytics. A practical experimental designer and fast learner, he has delivered high‑accuracy neural NLP models and scalable systems that collect millions of webpages daily. Colleagues rely on him for creative problem solving and leadership that bridges research and production.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Systems Engineering (Exchange Program), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Systems Engineering (Exchange Program) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Analytics, 3.92/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Analytics, 3.92/4.00 at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering, 3.88/4.00, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering, 3.88/4.00 at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
movie10
bootstrap-css10
flask10
python9
bootstrap9
javascript9
css9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pankh13/movienet
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Website for movie recommendation (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, Python Flask)
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
pythoncssflaskjavascriptmovie
pankh13/SocialNetworkHW
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
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