Qi Zhao
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Of Marketing at UNSW Business School
New York, New York, Australia
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Top SchoolQi Zhao is a quantitative marketing scholar and practitioner with nine years of experience blending advanced statistics, reinforcement learning, and causal inference to optimize customer targeting and CRM. Currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Marketing at UNSW Business School, Qi earned a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from Penn State and a Master's in Statistics from Columbia, bringing rigorous Bayesian and hierarchical modeling expertise to applied marketing problems. Prior roles at Alibaba and NYU Stern involved deploying deep Q-learning for coupon targeting and using doubly-robust estimators to evaluate policies on massive SQL/Hive datasets. Qi’s work bridges academic rigor and product impact—able to simulate adaptive experiments, estimate individual time/risk preferences, and operationalize large-scale analyses for decision-making. Based in New York with ties to Australia, Qi also offers admissions consulting, reflecting a knack for translating technical depth into practical guidance.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES at Penn State UniversityMaster's degree, Statistics, 4.03, Master's degree, Statistics, 4.03 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Financial Statistics & Risk Management, 87/100, Bachelor's degree, Financial Statistics & Risk Management, 87/100 at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
scipy8
algorithms8
scientific-computing8
python8
r-package3
stan2
bayesian-data-analysis2
bayesian-statistics1
developer-tools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ZhaoQii/Betweenness-Improved-Structure-Entropy-of-Complex-Network
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ZhaoQii/ZhaoQii.github.io
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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