Yang Zhou
Data Scientist II
Virginia, Canada
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Top SchoolYang Zhou is a Data Scientist II with a decade-long technical trajectory that blends 4+ years in industry analytics and an equal span of academic research in machine learning and simulation modeling. He has driven experiment analysis, predictive modeling, and analytics tooling at consumer-facing companies like Yelp and now applies those skills to product and growth problems at Pinterest. His PhD in Computational Social Science and earlier regional science and engineering degrees enable him to translate complex geospatial and social-data signals into actionable models and dashboards. Comfortable moving between research-grade simulation and production analytics, he often surfaces non-obvious urban and human-behavior patterns from social media and location data. Based in Virginia, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical product impact across both independent projects and platform-scale environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Regional Science, Master's Degree, Regional Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering at New York University - Polytechnic School of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Social Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Social Science at George Mason UniversityBachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at South China University of TechnologyGithub contributions (5)
YangZhouCSS/roads
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
YangZhouCSS/Urban_Growth_Model
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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