Rachel Beal
Senior Data Scientist, Product
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRachel Beal is a Senior Data Scientist in Google’s Product organization with six years of industry experience turning experimental science into production ML and analytics. She holds a PhD in Materials Science from Stanford and has a strong track record in experimental design, in situ X-ray characterization, and developing production-ready models in Python and R across classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. Rachel has led data science for product teams at Square and Macy’s, where she scaled propensity models and ran rapid experimentation for personalization and CRM. Her background in physical-science research informs a quantitative, measurement-driven approach to product problems—she even coded a value-iteration reinforcement learning solver and deployed an interactive AWS Dash app during a data science fellowship. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she blends deep domain expertise with practical product impact, especially in translating noisy experimental data into actionable business signals.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Materials Science, GPA: 3.941, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Materials Science, GPA: 3.941 at Northwestern UniversityCornell UniversityValedictorian (2009), Valedictorian (2009) at Ridgefield High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science Engineering, GPA: 3.914, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science Engineering, GPA: 3.914 at Stanford University
Github Skills (1)
reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
rachelbeal/FasTack
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
FasTack can be used to optimize sailboat routes based on wind data using reinforcement learning with value iteration and value iteration with Q-learning.
Contributions:65 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
qlearningreinforcement-learningsailing
rachelbeal/CodeacademySQL
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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