Yao Yao
Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Yao is a data scientist with nine years of multidisciplinary experience combining production ML, analytics, and automation across ecommerce, media, and research settings. Based in Chicago, he has built end-to-end solutions—from Python trading bots that generated substantial profit to hybrid recommendation engines, large-scale time-series forecasting on Azure, and computer-vision A/B tests to boost conversions. He blends hands-on engineering (Selenium, Databricks/Spark, Celigo, Shopify Liquid) with statistical rigor (ARIMA, XGBoost, LDA/PCA, HMM) and has led presentations and SOPs that turned data insights into operational change, including ISO-driven waste reductions. Notably, he migrates recurring high-value customers across platforms and automated complex logistics workflows, cutting manual bottlenecks. His background in materials engineering and lab research informs a meticulous, experimental approach to modeling and feature engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E Material Science Engineering, B.S.E Material Science Engineering at University of MichiganInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Upper Arlington High SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA non degree courses, Master of Business Administration - MBA non degree courses at Oakland UniversityMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Southern Methodist University
German, English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
firefox-addon7
chrome-extension7
dedicated-server7
webextension7
dotnet6
music5
safari-extension5
lastfm5
wikipedia2
quest1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yaowser/learn-spark
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
yaowser/MSDS-6306-job-scraper
Feb 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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