Yutong Dai
Senior Applied Scientist at Salesforce
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYutong Dai is a Senior Applied Scientist at Salesforce with a decade of experience applying statistical rigor and machine learning to product problems, following a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Lehigh and an MS in Statistics from UIUC. She progressed from research and internship roles into applied research at Salesforce, demonstrating a path from academic foundations to production-impacting ML. Her background spans classical statistics, experimental design, and applied modeling—skills honed across internships at Adobe and Anheuser-Busch InBev that complement her research instincts. Known for bridging rigorous research with engineering pragmatism, she brings both depth in probabilistic thinking and a track record of shipping solutions in enterprise settings. An understated strength is her consistent trajectory of transitioning research prototypes into applied features within large product teams.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics(concentration in Statistics ), Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics(concentration in Statistics ) at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh UniversityMaster of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese
Github Skills (127)
hugo-theme10
netlify10
llama10
r9
forestry9
personalization9
hugo9
page-builder9
rstudio9
jupyter9
open-science9
roamresearch9
convex9
rmarkdown9
cuda9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Rothdyt/codes-for-courses
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:91 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
daniel-p-robinson/nonlinear-optimization-course
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year
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