Xinyu Wei
Researcher at Chapin Hall
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXinyu Wei is a researcher with eight years of experience applying quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to child welfare system performance and program evaluation. At Chapin Hall she integrates administrative data, builds multilevel models and machine learning pipelines, and designs interactive dashboards that translate complex analytics into actionable insights for leaders. Her work spans prevention and foster care interventions across state and international contexts, and she has been exploring NLP and large language models to extract policy-relevant signals from unstructured text. Trained in public policy at the University of Chicago, she combines rigorous survey and policy analysis skills with practical data engineering. Before research roles she wrote and edited for regional journalism outlets, a background that sharpens her ability to communicate technical findings clearly to diverse stakeholders. Based in Waltham, MA, she brings a rare mix of statistical depth, product-oriented data visualization, and cross-sector communication.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication General, Bachelor's degree Communication General at Communication University of ChinaMaster's degree Public Policy, Master's degree Public Policy at University of ChicagoUniversity of Missouri
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
controlling9
causal8
orthogonal8
causality8
causal-inference8
double8
economics7
alice7
sdk7
decision-making7
microsoft-research7
machine-learning6
econometrics6
fairness-ml5
machine-learning-algorithms5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xinyuww/RNN_STP
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
xinyuww/profile_scraping
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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