Zihao Jiang is a data scientist with 11 years of experience blending analytics, machine learning, and product-minded experimentation across tech and finance firms including ByteDance and Facebook. Trained in economics and business analytics at the University of Minnesota, he translates messy behavioral and sales datasets into actionable insights—examples include predicting business flight prices and isolating drivers of retailer market share. He pairs production analytics with hands-on engineering: contributions to the FreeRDP project show experience fixing hard-to-find bugs, adding tests, and improving cross-platform reliability. Comfortable moving from SQL and visualization to model development, Zihao brings a marketer’s intuition for outcomes and a developer’s discipline for robustness. Based in Shanghai, he focuses on data mining, visualization, and applying ML to drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics, Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics at University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:57 commits, 51 PRs, 272 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zihao primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the reliability of the FreeRDP library. Their contributions involved identifying and resolving issues within the `region16_intersect_rect` function, fixing style inconsistencies, and addressing potential memory leaks. Furthermore, the user added test cases to ensure the correctness and stability of the region handling code, thereby enhancing the overall quality of the remote desktop protocol library. They also fixed issues related to the gfx channel and implemented solutions to support various client operating systems.
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