Wencao Yang
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWencao Yang is a Senior Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Physics and a decade of experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world search, recommendation, and trading problems. He has driven learning-to-rank and reranking innovations at Walmart Global Tech and built personalized recommendation and LTV forecasting systems for trader education at NinjaTrader. At Strike Social he combined predictive modeling, NLP-based brand-safety classification, and ETL/dashboarding to operationalize insights for clients, and his research background spans neutron scattering and network science. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has applied LLMs for data augmentation and prompt engineering for reranking tasks—bringing academic rigor to product-focused ML pipelines. Based in Chicago, he’s equally adept at feature engineering and designing user-priority scoring systems that translate analytics into measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's Degree Physics, Bachelor's Degree Physics at Xiamen University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
freeradius3
routeros3
mikrotik3
network-tools2
snmp2
garden1
Github contributions (5)
wencyang/network_research
Oct 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
wencyang/applied-linear-regression-solutions-for-Sanford-Weisberg
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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