Nanyu Chen
Principal Data Scientist - Discovery
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNanyu Chen is a Principal Data Scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience applying optimization, statistical inference, machine learning and decision science across experimentation platforms, social networks, infrastructure, marketing intelligence and travel. Currently leading discovery-focused data science at Roblox, she previously drove principal ML work at Expedia and led sales intelligence, network experimentation and resource optimization at LinkedIn (with published research). She blends rigorous academic grounding from Cambridge and UC Berkeley with hands-on production experience—shipping measurement, forecasting and personalized-recommendation systems at scale. An active advisor and angel investor, she evaluates and supports early-stage AI startups at Embedding VC with a particular interest in AGI-era opportunities. Notably, her work often bridges deep causal modeling and practical business impact, turning complex experiments into actionable product and cost-efficiency gains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Statistics, Master of Arts (MA), Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of Cambridgechengdu foreign languages schoolwoodbridge school
English, Chinese, Chinese, FrenchGithub contributions (2)
kitsuneh/SVGameBoy
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
luwei0917/TruthTree
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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