Shijia Bian
Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolShijia Bian is a research scientist with 11 years of quantitative and data-science experience, now based in Menlo Park and recently appointed at Meta after completing a PhD in Biostatistics at Emory. She combines deep statistical programming expertise in R (text mining, spatial analysis, Big Data tools like SparkR and MapReduce) with practical experience in SQL, Git, and visualization tools including Tableau and ArcGIS. Her background spans industry and academia—from biomarker biostatistics at Biogen to risk and ML internships at JPMorgan and Wells Fargo—bringing both domain rigor and production-minded modeling. She specializes in Bayesian methods, topic models, fraud/imbalanced-data detection, and agent-based simulation, making her adept at tackling noisy, real-world datasets. Fluent in English and Mandarin and comfortable with business terminology in both languages, she bridges technical and cross-cultural stakeholder communication. An analytical polymath, she uniquely pairs academic depth with hands-on engineering for scalable statistical systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics-BS ACMS-Mathmatical Economics Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics-BS ACMS-Mathmatical Economics Statistics at University of WashingtonMaster's degree Master of Statistical Science, Master's degree Master of Statistical Science at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biostatistics at Emory University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
decision-tree6
elapsed-time6
apache-zeppelin6
parallels6
java6
apache-spark6
random-seed6
runtimes6
r6
r-package2
bayesian2
statistics1
bayesian-data-analysis1
bayesian-statistics1
bayesian-methods1
Github contributions (5)
shijbian/STA-663-Final-Project
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes in 1 month
shijbian/photo
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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