Jennie Sun
Duke Energy Initiative Project Fellow - Technical Lead
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennie Sun is a data scientist and technical lead with eight years of interdisciplinary experience applying statistical methods, BI tools, and machine learning to drive measurable business and environmental impact. Currently a Duke Energy Initiative Project Fellow and MIDS graduate student, she builds production-ready pipelines and 3D-augmented remote sensing datasets for energy infrastructure while guiding student teams on best practices and experimental design. Her background spans industry and research—from scaling CNN-based face-detection pipelines at Nike (0.96 validation accuracy) to improving recycling KPIs via customer-facing dashboards—demonstrating fluency across ML, data engineering, and visualization. Jennie combines domain experience in environmental science and public health with pragmatic optimization and cost-benefit thinking to turn complex data into actionable strategies. Colleagues value her for bridging technical depth with mentorship and for translating novel analytics into operational improvements that scale.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences at Oxford College of Emory UniversityMIDS - Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science, MIDS - Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science at Duke UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Environmental Science & Economics, 3.5, Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Science & Economics, 3.5 at Emory UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
git10
subversion10
github10
patch10
ecology6
placement6
biodiversity6
duke5
nmf5
spark3
data-integrity3
python3
machine-learning3
data-science2
sql2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jenniesun/biostats-blog
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:125 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
jenniesun/js-basics-online-shopping-lab-bootcamp-prep-000
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:134 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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