Fangyuan Deng is a data-driven graduate student at Columbia University specializing in quantitative methods, data analytics, visualization, and machine learning, with a strong economics foundation from the University of Miami (magna cum laude). With a decade of technical experience, she combines rigorous statistical training—linear and logistic regression, PCA, clustering, text and social network analysis—with practical software contributions to high-performance analytics systems. Notably, she has contributed backend bug fixes, performance improvements, and unit tests to prominent open-source projects like Apache Druid, focusing on materialized views and fast restart reliability. A detail-oriented problem solver, Fangyuan excels at translating quantitative research models into actionable insights for economic and business problems. Multilingual (Mandarin native, fluent English, advanced Japanese) and culturally curious, she thrives in diverse environments and enjoys learning new languages and exploring travel-inspired perspectives.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Master's degree, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, 3.991/4, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, 3.991/4 at University of Miami
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 23 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Fangyuan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Apache Druid codebase, specifically related to the materialized view feature. Their work involved addressing issues with post-aggregators, concurrent modification errors, and incorrect size calculations within the derivative data source manager. They also contributed to the historical fast restart by lazy loading column metadata. The user's contributions involved unit tests and code refactoring to improve performance and reliability.
Apache Druid (Incubating) - Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
incubatingidealdata-storeapachebig-data
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