Nan Shen
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sheer Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Shen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience and a PhD in Genetics and Data Science, blending deep biomedical expertise with production ML systems. She has led end-to-end projects from novel microbiome time-series algorithms in academic research to deploying glycemic response models and RAG-driven personalized recipe systems at Viome. Currently focused on making American healthcare more acceptable at Sheer Health, she specializes in applying LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, and scalable AWS-based pipelines to clinical and consumer problems. Her work uniquely combines high-impact translational research (faster, more accurate microbiota clustering and discovery of bacterial cliques linked to metabolic outcomes) with demonstrated production metrics (e.g., saliva model AUC 0.99). Known for a curious, product-minded approach—“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”—she bridges biology, machine learning, and productization to move models from insight to real-world use.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology General at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Genetics and Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Genetics and Data Science at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiMaster's degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Master's degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University
Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
music-information-retrieval8
sound-processing8
audio7
music7
python-bindings7
midi6
audio-activities5
c-library5
pitch5
synthesis5
python5
cpp4
audio-analysis4
voice-activity-detection3
segmentation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kgat96/ubermini
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:91 commits, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
kgat96/blog
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 66 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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