Summary
Yuqing Zhang is a Staff Data Science Engineer with eight years of experience building production-ready ML solutions across finance, insurance, and semiconductor industries. Trained in Operations Research at Columbia, she combines strong Python engineering with hands-on expertise in predictive modeling, NLP, and 3D CNNs—work that includes scaling a brain MRI classifier on a supercomputer. At companies from American Express to Jetty and now ChangXin Memory, she has translated complex business needs into cross-functional data products and frameworks that improve efficiency. Notably, she has boosted NLP model accuracy in real-world trademark and news scraping projects and taught analytics at scale for 5,500 EdX learners, reflecting both technical depth and an ability to communicate complex methods.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Finance, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Finance at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Master's degree Operations Research, Master's degree Operations Research at Columbia University
Chinese, English