Riki Saito
Senior Staff Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiki Saito is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with 10 years of experience applying statistics and machine learning to product, marketing, and operations across Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Automotive, and on-demand retail. He has led company-wide churn analytics and experimentation programs at Dropbox, scaled forecasting and inventory ML at DoorDash, and built recommendation models for Sony Pictures used in sales planning and targeted marketing. Comfortable bridging research and product, Riki architects self-serve tooling and experimentation frameworks that accelerate decision-making and translate into measurable ARR impact. He holds an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Statistics and Economics from UIUC, and he regularly blogs about practical data science—demonstrating a commitment to clear communication and reproducible analysis.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Statistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Statistics at University of MinnesotaRidgewood High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics; Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics; Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese, English
Github Skills (19)
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
deep-learning9
speech-recognition9
nlp9
language-model8
transformer8
bert8
tensorflow8
transformers8
jax7
string-matching6
matching6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rjsaito/streamflow-adjustment
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
rjsaito/Just-R-Things
Aug 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:92 commits, 79 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
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