Zhen Zhai
Sr Manager, Data Science
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhen Zhai is a senior data science leader with 11 years of experience driving ML and AI initiatives in game development and player experience optimization, currently leading data science at Blizzard Entertainment. She manages cross-disciplinary teams spanning computer graphics, personalized recommendation, reinforcement learning, and production ML pipelines, translating research into playable features and measurable business impact. In parallel she teaches as an adjunct professor, reflecting a commitment to mentoring the next generation of data scientists. Zhen combines academic rigor from UC San Diego with hands-on industry leadership, and is known for fostering practical innovation that balances technical depth with player-centric product thinking.
11 years of coding experience
Irvine Valley CollegeUniversity of California, San Diego
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
lms9
edx9
vscode9
vscode-extension8
visual-studio8
probability5
visual-studio-code5
statistics4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cse103/Webwork_AdaptiveHints
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:72 PRs, 187 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
inferencehintstatisticalstatistical-inference
zhenzhai/edx-platform
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 257 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythondjangoedxpowersedx-platform
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