Fan You
Software Engineer at Uber
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan You is a software engineer with a PhD in Operations Management and a decade of experience building algorithmic systems for online marketplaces, currently working on rider surge pricing at Uber. His research and practical work bridge dynamic stochastic matching, customer choice modeling, approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning to optimize real-time decisions at scale. He has transitioned from applied scientist to software engineer while keeping ownership of core pricing algorithms, and previously contributed data science work at Activision and research at CU Boulder and Penn State. Outside of engineering, he's a WSOP ring champion tournament poker player, a background that informs his probabilistic thinking and risk-aware decision design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Penn State UniversityJinling High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Management, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Management at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science (B.S.) Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Industrial Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese, python, javaGithub contributions (5)
FanYouCN/Algorithms_Design_and_Analysis
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
FanYouCN/courses
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 months
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