Phoebe Wong
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhoebe Wong is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building NLP, recommendation, and ML solutions that translate qualitative and quantitative insights into business strategy. She has driven product and monetization efforts at LinkedIn and now shapes data-driven features at Slack, pairing research rigor from Harvard with practical production impact. Her background in social psychology informs a human-centered approach to modeling, from mining hundreds of thousands of transcripts to designing agentic GenAI hiring assistants. Phoebe is fluent in R and Python, contributes to qualtRics tooling, and has a track record of shipping interactive R Shiny dashboards for stakeholders. Recognized at Vertex with top company awards, she combines strong experimentation and statistics skills with product-minded storytelling through visualization. Colleagues benefit from her rare blend of academic research training and hands-on engineering across analytics, recommendation systems, and NLP.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Harvard University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
r-package10
census10
qualtrics10
r9
tidyverse9
api9
survey9
text-mining9
bookdown8
tidy8
mining8
cop7
powerpoint6
julia6
cran6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phoebewong/smalldatabigfindings
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
My website - Small data, Big findings
Contributions:3 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
datadata-sciencebig-datasmall-datafindings
CS207-group2/cs207-FinalProject
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
The Final Project Repo for CS 207 Fall 2018
Contributions:16 PRs, 55 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
pythonfall
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