Shawn Gu
Senior Data Scientist
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Gu is a Senior Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying machine learning and big-data systems to real-world problems, currently contributing at Nielsen from South Bend, Indiana. He brings deep research roots as a PhD candidate at Notre Dame where he developed novel network-science methods for comparing and aligning complex, noisy, heterogeneous graphs—work that spans applications from social identity matching to protein interaction transfer. Shawn has hands-on production experience building end-to-end ML pipelines (Apache Airflow) and deploying anomaly-detection and predictive-maintenance models that reduced operational backlog. Equally comfortable with theoretical graph algorithms and pragmatic engineering, he bridges NP-hard problem insights with scalable implementations. His background in mathematics and computational biology gives him a multidisciplinary edge for translating dense data into actionable models.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
firmware10
arm10
usb10
atmel10
rp204010
keyboard10
avr9
qmk8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shshsh11/qmk_firmware
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:131 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 3 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
sdgu/collab-teambuilder
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:91 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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