Lingwei Cheng
Postdoctoral Researcher at UCF Center For Public and Nonprofit Management
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolLingwei Cheng is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Responsible AI specialist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to public-sector problems like homelessness, healthcare, and workforce development. She combines rigorous empirical methods—from large-scale EHR analysis and probabilistic record linkage to randomized trial design—with hands-on software and ETL tool building to turn disparate administrative data into actionable policy insights. Her work at institutions including Stanford, Cornell Tech, and the University of Chicago has probed sensitive issues such as race imputation, redundant encoding, and public perceptions of race-adjusted algorithms. At UCF she focuses on improving digital access and shared infrastructure for vulnerable populations, blending technical design with community-facing coordination. Trained with a PhD in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon and a computational policy master’s, she sits at the intersection of data science, ethics, and implementation. An uncommon strength is her track record of moving research into sustained government and nonprofit partnerships that produce real-world contracts and services.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computational Analysis and Public Policy, Master's Degree Computational Analysis and Public Policy at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Comparative Politics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Comparative Politics at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaBachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Business and Management; Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Business and Management; Political Science at Dickinson CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Public Policy Analysis, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Public Policy Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (18)
api8
spatial-analysis8
wps7
geospatial7
twitter-api7
datasets7
ckan7
open-datasets7
python6
wcs6
twitter6
time-series5
csv3
cli2
command-line-tool2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lw334/tweechable_final
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 58 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
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