William Chen
Vice President, Quantitative Research
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Chen is a Vice President of Quantitative Research at Two Sigma with 12 years of experience turning complex data into actionable investment and product insights. He progressed from teaching statistics at Harvard to hands-on roles in data science and management at Quora before joining Two Sigma as a quantitative researcher and now leading research efforts. His background blends an A.B. in Statistics with a secondary in Computer Science and an S.M. in Applied Mathematics, giving him strong theoretical foundations and practical modeling skills. Known for bridging rigorous statistical thinking with production-ready solutions, he thrives on extracting signal from noisy, real-world datasets in fast-moving environments. Based in New York, he combines academic rigor with industry-scale experimentation and a talent for translating models into measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Statistics, Secondary in Computer Science, A.B., Statistics, Secondary in Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (2)
probability10
r-package1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
wzchen/probability_cheatsheet
Jul 2014 - Jun 2019
A comprehensive 10-page probability cheatsheet that covers a semester's worth of introduction to probability.
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years
cheatsheetsemesterprobabilitycomprehensivecovers
wzchen/the_data_science_handbook
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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