Yanzhi Meng
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYanzhi Meng is a Senior Data Scientist in San Francisco with a decade of hands-on experience turning research-grade models into production AI, currently leading LLM and generative-AI strategy at UnitedHealth Group to structure complex medical records and manage end-to-end model lifecycles. Her background spans regulated finance and surveillance at FINRA, predictive maintenance and large-scale PySpark pipelines for industrial clients, and applied R&D from particle physics to social media modeling—bringing uncommon rigor in uncertainty quantification and interpretability. She pairs technical leadership and stakeholder translation, building explainable surrogate models and monitoring frameworks that make complex ML actionable for business and compliance teams. Comfortable as both a freelancer and core team lead, she blends academic depth (PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics) with pragmatic production skills in Azure, PyTorch, and transformer fine-tuning.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Elementary Particle Physics, Master's degree Elementary Particle Physics at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Oklahoma State UniversityMaster's degree Nuclear Physics, Master's degree Nuclear Physics at The Catholic University of America
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
Doraemeng/physics_works
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
Doraemeng/helloworld
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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