Paulina Zheng
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPaulina Zheng is a Senior Data Scientist in New York with eight years of experience building and deploying statistical and machine learning solutions across public health and biotech to customer engagement platforms. She combines a Columbia M.S. in Epidemiology and Applied Biostatistics and a strong back-end engineering skillset (Python, SQL, SAS) to translate complex biological and clinical data into production-ready models and features. Her work ranges from RNA-seq and protein-focused ML for drug discovery at Envisagenics to regression and policy-relevant analyses at NYC DOHMH, and she now drives data science at Braze. Known for bridging rigorous biostatistical thinking with pragmatic engineering, she often brings domain-aware feature engineering and reproducible pipelines to production ML.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Epidemiology, Applied Biostatistics, 4.0, Master's Degree, Epidemiology, Applied Biostatistics, 4.0 at Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthBachelor's Degree, Biology & Community Health, magna cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Biology & Community Health, magna cum laude at Tufts University
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
structural-variation2
bioinformatics2
computational-biology2
finder2
python-bindings2
sequence-analysis2
blast1
python1
sequence-alignment1
helix1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
paulinaczheng/twitter_flu_tracking
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:94 commits, 48 PRs, 82 pushes in 15 days
paulinaczheng/nearest-neighbors-lab-data-science-intro-000
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:247 pushes in 7 days
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