Yuchen Wang
Principal Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYuchen Wang is a Principal Data Scientist based in New York with 12 years of experience bridging computational statistics and applied data science across healthcare and marketing. He has led data science teams for five years at CVS Health, scaling analytic pipelines and operationalizing models that speed delivery and improve consistency. A seasoned R developer since 2012 and author of multiple R packages, he combines deep Bayesian and high-performance computing expertise from his graduate research with pragmatic automation and productionization skills developed in industry. Previously he built real-time reporting apps, automated reporting workflows, and introduced company-wide best practices in version control and reproducible analysis. Known for squeezing large performance gains from algorithms (e.g., 30x MCMC speedups) and for mentoring teams to adopt robust engineering patterns, he blends statistical rigor with product-minded execution.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Computer Science, Minor Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics at East China Normal UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Chinese, English
Github Skills (40)
r10
bookdown10
sparklyr9
ide9
dplyr9
database8
backend8
livy8
jekyll8
apache-spark7
spark7
tidyr7
jekyll-theme7
tidymodels7
tidy7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wangyuchen/extdplyr
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Data Manipulation Extension based on dplyr and tidyr
Contributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
dplyrtidyr
wangyuchen/nomoreforloops
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
I don't write for loops
Contributions:4 PRs, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
loops
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