Yang He
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang He is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft with eight years of experience applying quantitative and ML techniques across finance and tech. He advanced from data scientist to senior ML scientist at Microsoft after earlier roles as a senior quantitative analyst at Freddie Mac and research/teaching positions at Iowa State University and NBER. Holding a PhD in Economics, he blends rigorous causal and econometric thinking with production machine learning to solve business-critical problems. Based in Greater Boston, he is comfortable translating academic research into scalable models and data products in enterprise environments. A detail that sets him apart is his cross-disciplinary trajectory—from academic research assistant to production ML scientist—giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and deployment-focused pragmatism.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Iowa State University
Github Skills (74)
python10
bots10
conversational-ui10
javascript10
bot-application10
dotnet10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
sdk10
conversational-ai10
js10
cli-tools10
chatbot10
typescript10
java10
bot-framework10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hcyang/traditional_nlp_modeling
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:34 pushes in 7 days
hcyang/or_llm_cot_rl_agent
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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