Yanxia Li
Applied Scientist at Amazon
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolYanxia Li is an applied scientist in San Jose with 8 years of experience turning large, noisy datasets into actionable business and product insights. With a PhD in astrophysics, she blends rigorous statistical modeling, custom pipelines, and domain intuition to solve production problems—from deconvolving faint signals in TB-scale astronomical images to deploying Thompson Sampling multi-armed bandits that drove an estimated $20M in incremental gross revenue at Wayfair. Comfortable with Airflow, Spark, Python, SQL, Flask and reinforcement learning, she builds end-to-end systems and reproducible ML workflows in cloud environments. Known for pragmatic experimentation and clear test design, she also brings a strong background in topic modeling and NLP from a deployed Glassdoor-review analysis tool.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Beijing Normal UniversityMaster's degree, Astronomy, Master's degree, Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
yanxiali/Predicting-Default-Clients-of-Lending-Club-Loans
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
yanxiali/SF_Crime_Analysis
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes in 5 months
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