Weiyan Shi
Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWeiyan Shi is an Assistant Professor and researcher in statistics and machine learning with a decade of experience spanning academia and industry. He holds advanced degrees from UC Berkeley and is completing a PhD in Computer Science, with postdoctoral experience at Stanford and research internships at Meta/Facebook across multiple years. His background blends rigorous statistical modeling in R and Python with practical big-data engineering using Spark and Apache Pig, applied to finance and NLP problems. He has industry experience as a data scientist building intent-classification systems and a track record of moving research into production settings. Colleagues describe him as analytically rigorous but hands-on, able to bridge theoretical methods and scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, DavisMaster's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics at Renmin University of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
datasets10
nlp10
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
science8
ranking8
differential-privacy7
computer-science7
react7
pytorch6
meta4
neural-network4
privacy3
meta-learning3
reinforcement-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wyshi/lm_privacy
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:154 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
wyshi/wyshi.github.io
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:184 pushes in 3 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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