Summary
I-ping Chou is a Lead Data Scientist with 9 years’ experience building production-grade AI and data platforms across Japan and Taiwan, currently architecting large-scale demand forecasting and assortment optimization for Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan. He combines strong academic training in data science and statistics with hands-on skills in Spark/Databricks, MLflow, XGBoost, LangChain, and real-time multimodal systems, having shipped solutions from OCR on iOS to GenAI meeting assistants. I-ping has a track record of turning complex operational constraints into automated, high-impact workflows—e.g., cutting a manual assortment planning cycle from months to hours and improving vending-machine swap efficiency dramatically. He’s equally fluent presenting technical strategy in Japanese to cross-functional teams and integrating international research experience from Osaka University into commercial projects. Colleagues know him for bridging research-grade modeling with pragmatic engineering and for orchestrating multi-vendor initiatives (including McKinsey) to deliver measurable business uplift.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Frontier-Lab Exchange Program, Statistics, Frontier-Lab Exchange Program, Statistics at Osaka University
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at 國立臺灣大學
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics at 國立成功大學
Chinese, English, Japanese