Yechan Kang - Data Scientist

Yechan Kang

Data Scientist

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Yechan Kang is a data scientist based in Sydney with 8 years’ experience turning complex datasets into revenue-driving products and decisions. With a PhD background in civil engineering and hands-on work across AWS, GCP, Snowflake and MLflow, he leads end-to-end ML lifecycles—from feature engineering on public census and transaction data to production deployment and MLOps. He has delivered measurable business impact, including a 16% uplift in membership through SageMaker models and improved portfolio revenue forecasts via demand-model updates and pricing elasticity analysis. Comfortable with stakeholder-facing roles, he runs cross-functional teams, presents to mixed audiences, and translates technical work into commercial outcomes. An occasional C++ contributor to the CMS Offline Software project, he also brings rigorous scientific training and a systems mindset to production analytics.

8 years of coding experience

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at Tongji University

Master's degree, Civil Engineering, Master's degree, Civil Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering at Monash University

Chinese, English, German

Github Skills (5)

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

data-validation10

cplus7

cpp7

Programming languages (2)

C++Python

Github contributions (5)

cms-sw/cmssw

Apr 2019 - Dec 2022

CMS Offline Software

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 reviews, 100 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Yechan primarily addressed bug fixes and implemented minor improvements within the CMS Offline Software repository. Their work involved modifying C++ code, specifically focusing on plots and data validation within the muon detector system. They also introduced the use of GEMDigiSimLink for the matching of simulation data, and made changes to the naming scheme, also considering GE0 in GEM validation plots.

cmscernweb-appc-plus-plusbackbonejs

yeckang/gemsw

Oct 2021 - Nov 2023

QC8 and testbeam

Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years

testbeam

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