Weichen Zhang
Data Science Manager
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeichen Zhang is a Data Science Manager at PwC with nine years’ experience blending accounting rigor and advanced data science to modernize workflows in traditional industries. A CPA-turned-data scientist with an MIS from Carnegie Mellon, he has led the development and production deployment of enterprise recommender systems, NER-enabled search web apps, and large-scale text classification pipelines using SparkML and Azure Data Factory. He excels at translating business requirements into auditable data products and has run experiments on model drift detection and online learning for datasets exceeding 15M records. Based in Tampa, he brings cross-functional fluency from audit to product management, enabling smoother collaboration between stakeholders and engineering teams. Outside work he pairs a background in genetics/genomics with endurance pursuits like mountaineering and marathons, reflecting a discipline that informs his systematic approach to data problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 4.06/4.00, High School, 4.06/4.00 at Shenzhen Foreign Languages SchoolMaster of Information Systems Management, 3.89/4.33, Master of Information Systems Management, 3.89/4.33 at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyBachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Economics, 3.81/4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Economics, 3.81/4.00 at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
next-generation-sequencing9
sequencing8
assembler8
structural-variation8
mapper8
mobile8
genomics6
bioconda6
bioinformatics6
docker6
jekyll4
pipeline4
python3
discovery3
command-line3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mills-lab/primate_numt
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
all scripts used for primate numts
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pythonnumts
Boyle-Lab/NanoPal-and-Cas9-targeted-enrichment-pipelines
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
The pipelines for the project 'Cas9 targeted enrichment of mobile elements using nanopore sequencing', including NanoPal and Cleavage-site analysis
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
mobilesequencing
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