Shiyang Chen
Staff Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShiyang Chen is a Staff Data Scientist at Meta with nine years of experience building data-driven models and deploying advanced ML solutions for ads, GenAI, and business products. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and dual master’s degrees in applied mathematics and naval architecture, bringing deep theoretical grounding in stochastic processes, numerical linear algebra, and convex optimization to practical problems. At Meta he now contributes to Llama training data and generative AI efforts after leading analytics and modeling work for Facebook Ads; prior roles include time-series modeling for customer behavior at Citi and research on stochastic differential equation models at the University of Michigan. He codes fluently in Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++ and has applied neural networks, gradient boosting, SVMs and probabilistic inference to real-world systems. Known for extracting novel features from time series and linking eigenvalue behavior to system stability, he blends academic rigor with product impact to turn complex mathematical insights into scalable solutions. Based in New York, he combines research pedigree with hands-on production experience across large-scale data platforms.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan College of EngineeringMaster of Arts (M.A.) Applied Mathematics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Applied Mathematics at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsBachelor of Science (BS) Ocean Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Ocean Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
meta4
analytical4
python2
scalable2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ShiyangChen1991/Spatial_EWS
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ShiyangChen1991/ShiyangChen1991.github.io
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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