Peng Zhang
Head Of SCM Advanced Analytics at Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolPeng Zhang is a data science leader with 10+ years of experience applying AI and advanced analytics to commercial excellence, omnichannel marketing, and healthcare innovation across Japan and APAC. Currently Head of SCM Advanced Analytics & Data Science at Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, he previously drove regional AI initiatives at Janssen—building LLM-RAG physician classification, physician scoring engines, and a 5R omnichannel recommendation system that delivered measurable sales uplifts and earned a President’s Club award. His background includes building a trilingual healthcare chatbot and genotype-informed disease risk models at GeneLife, and earlier roles optimizing digital marketing and ROI at Skyscanner and Rakuten. A PhD-trained physicist and former JSPS research fellow, he blends rigorous research skills with pragmatic product delivery and a track record of turning complex models into deployed business impact. Notably, he has engineered practical innovations (e.g., three-languages-in-one development and fuzzy entity extraction) that boosted development efficiency and model performance.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
pipeline7
science6
kedro6
machine-learning6
python6
modular4
mlops3
speech3
data-science3
adblock2
linux2
speech-to-text2
speech-recognition2
ctc2
automatic-speech-recognition1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ppvastar/kedro_to_dataiku
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 32 commits, 28 pushes in 1 month
ppvastar/hana
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 month
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