Summer Zhao
Incoming Assistant Professor Of Accounting at Santa Clara University
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSummer Zhao is an incoming Assistant Professor of Accounting with 12 years of professional experience bridging corporate finance, audit, consulting, and academic research. She earned a PhD in Accounting from UC Berkeley Haas and applies advanced data science, machine learning, and NLP to capital markets questions, turning unstructured disclosures into empirically testable insights. Before academia she led global consolidation and automation efforts at Dolby and conducted high‑stakes financial and IT audits for public companies, earning firm awards for process improvement and client service. Her work blends rigorous empirical methods with hands‑on accounting practice, enabling research that is both publication‑ready and immediately relevant to practitioners. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she pairs cross-border roots and multilingual training with a proven ability to manage complex data pipelines and interdisciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science, Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationBachelor of Business Administration Double Majors in Accounting & International Business (in English), Bachelor of Business Administration Double Majors in Accounting & International Business (in English) at Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Accounting, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Accounting at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMaster of Accountancy Track: Audit & Systems, Master of Accountancy Track: Audit & Systems at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
data-structures3
java3
cpp2
Github contributions (3)
anphoenix/demo_nlp_im
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 27 days
anphoenix/data_crawler_generic
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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