Paul Xu
Data Scientist
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Xu is a data scientist with nine years of multidisciplinary experience applying ML/DL, NLP, and large-scale data engineering to education and research settings. Currently leading data science at Brown’s Center for Computation and Visualization, he builds production-ready models across Python and R ecosystems and orchestrates parallel workloads on AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM Cloud with Spark. He excels at turning messy, unstructured research data into actionable insights and striking visualizations that inform both technical and non-technical stakeholders. With a PhD focused on educational data science and an MS in computer science, he bridges rigorous research methods and practical engineering. A lifelong learner who has completed 60+ MOOCs and is bilingual in English and Mandarin, he brings uncommon pedagogical experience—having built curriculum and deployed IoT-backed classroom systems—to inform human-centered ML solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Curriculum & Instruction (Focus: Educational Data Science), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Curriculum & Instruction (Focus: Educational Data Science) at Boston CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English with specialization in Ecommerce, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English with specialization in Ecommerce at Northeast Normal UniversityMaster of Education (M.Ed.), English Language Learners, Master of Education (M.Ed.), English Language Learners at Vanderbilt University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (67)
forge10
sampling10
sequential10
expressions9
probabilistic-programming9
python9
mcmc9
bayesian-inference9
bayesian-statistics9
mermaid9
statistical-inference9
probabilistic9
modeling9
variational-inference9
conda9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lnccbrown/HSSM
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Development of HSSM package
Contributions:9 releases, 168 reviews, 133 PRs in 1 year 9 months
thepolicylab/aurora
Nov 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:13 reviews, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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