Zheng Fang
Associate Director Of Optimization, Decision Sciences
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZheng Fang is a Senior Staff Research Scientist in Decision Sciences with 10+ years building optimization, forecasting, and ML systems for large-scale ad platforms and public-safety infrastructure. He owns end-to-end delivery—from algorithm research and validation to production rollout—specializing in scalable ad delivery, pacing, bidding, and budget-control algorithms that drive measurable business impact. Previously an Associate Director, he pairs deep individual-contributor expertise with mentorship and cross-functional leadership, having guided full-time data scientists and interns on production-grade systems. His background spans big-data platforms (Spark, Hive, Kafka), cloud pipelines, and pragmatic AI-augmented development to accelerate engineering work. Notably, his early research produced fast numerical solvers for elastodynamics and he shipped practical tooling from front-end drag-and-drop UI work to backend optimization that reduced manual diagnostics from days to hours.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, BS, Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, GPA: 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, GPA: 4.0/4.0 at University of Illinois at ChicagoJiujiang No.1 Middle School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
drag-and-drop10
grid-layout10
javascript10
react10
draggable10
css8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Foveluy/Dragact
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
a dragger layout system with React style .
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 165 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zheng primarily contributed to the development of a draggable layout system using React. Their work focused on implementing core features related to drag-and-drop functionality, including bounds detection, fixing bugs related to element movement, and creating a grid-based layout prototype. The user's commits show a strong focus on UI component development and user interaction logic.
draggerreactlayout-systemgrid-systemgrid-layout
Foveluy/ReStory
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:159 commits, 144 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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