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)
pii10
genomes10
masking10
sequence10
insertion10
next-generation-sequencing9
computational-biology8
genome8
assembler8
molecule8
bioinformatics8
sequencing7
pipeline7
bioconda7
genomics7
Programming languages (7)
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
mills-lab/PALMER
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Pre-mAsking Long reads for Mobile Element inseRtion
Contributions:5 releases, 3 commits, 68 PRs in 1 day
insertionlongmaskinglong-reads
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