Kuan-yu Chen
Principal Data Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKuan-yu Chen is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience blending data engineering, statistical modeling, and ML/AI to solve problems in biology, chemistry, and precision medicine. He has built production pipelines, web apps, and deployed models both on-premises and in the cloud, translating real-world evidence into predictive tools at companies like Amgen and dsm-firmenich. With a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a background in fisheries science, he brings uncommon domain expertise that informs robust bio-cheminformatics solutions. Comfortable leading cross-functional work or shipping independently, he pairs hands-on Python/R/SQL development with an eye for practical experimental design and reproducible analytics. An investigator-turned-engineer, he uniquely bridges wet-lab data acquisition and scalable ML systems to accelerate scientific insight.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Zoology; Fisheries Division, Bachelor of Science (BS) Zoology; Fisheries Division at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
cross-validation10
r9
machine-learning8
data-integration6
lcd3
octoprint2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexkychen/FASTQ_tools
Sep 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
alexkychen/GDS0210
Feb 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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