Yunbai Zhang
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunbai Zhang is a Senior Data Scientist at Vanguard with seven years of experience building NLP, GenAI, LLMs, and recommendation/decision engines for financial advisor services. With an M.S. in Data Science from Columbia and dual B.S./B.A. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from UC Davis, Yunbai blends rigorous academic training with production ML experience across fintech and ad-tech, including payment fraud protection at Microsoft. Their background spans research roles in NLP and computer vision at Columbia and applied anomaly detection at Capital One, reflecting a strong bridge between research and deployable systems. Notably, Yunbai has applied advanced language models to domain-specific financial workflows, demonstrating both model innovation and delivery in highly regulated environments.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of California, DavisMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (15)
face-generation7
generative-adversarial-network5
face4
face-recognition4
large-scale3
editing3
parsing3
face-detection2
visualization2
scale2
computer-vision2
python1
machine-learning1
recommender1
hosting1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ISIFoundation/Internal-Displacement-Monitoring
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 35 pushes in 14 days
YunbaiZhang/Electronic_Ratings_Visualization
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Exploration and Visualization for Electronic Products
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 months
electronicvisualization
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