Luyao Peng
Data Scientist
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolLuyao Peng is a data scientist and NLP research engineer with nine years of experience bridging statistical rigor and applied language technologies. With a Ph.D. in Statistics and an M.A. in Linguistics, she has led scalable deep-and-wide NLP projects and productionized automated scoring systems like CRASE+ at assessment-focused organizations. Her background spans academic research, teaching statistics, and industry roles at ByteDance and ACT, where she combined EM-based missing-data techniques, feature engineering, and deep learning for robust model pipelines. She is comfortable moving models from research to product, including forensic detection and visualization work for assessment integrity. Based in the Los Angeles area, she brings a rare blend of quantitative measurement expertise and linguistic insight that drives interpretable, evaluation-conscious NLP solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at University of California, RiversideMaster of Arts, Linguistics, Master of Arts, Linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University
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Github Skills (21)
bayesian-methods10
probabilistic-programming9
probabilistic-reasoning9
statistics9
probabilistic9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
data-science8
natural-language-generation7
plug7
plug-and-play7
tensorflow7
language-modeling7
python7
nlp6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pengluyaoyao/MMeM
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:95 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
pengluyaoyao/pengluyaoyao.github.io
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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