Yizhi Zhang
Data Scientist
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYizhi Zhang is a Data Scientist with 12 years of experience combining rigorous applied mathematics training (MS and PhD) with practical machine learning and engineering to deliver measurable business impact. Currently at Quanta Technology and previously at Jamran, Yizhi built ML-driven pricing and bidding models that lifted bidding success by 55% and consistently outperformed industry benchmarks while cutting computation and operations costs. Skilled in Python, ETL, NLP, web scraping and statistical modeling, he translates messy inputs into production-ready pipelines and forecasts with high accuracy. Based in Las Vegas, he pairs academic depth with product-minded execution—applying mathematical models to customer satisfaction and financial pricing problems. Outside of work he blends coding with strategic risk thinking as an avid poker player, an interest that sharpens his probabilistic intuition and competitive edge.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS business analytics, Master of Science - MS business analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
dimensions10
lan10
data-structures8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harryzyz/Yizhi-Thesis
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
harryzyz/LeetCodePractice
Aug 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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