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Seattle, Wa, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Transforming Walmart’s supply chain and store operations with IoT and Machine Learning.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Driving Walmart E-commerce promise and sourcing optimization- Lead a team of associates including product managers, analysts, and data scientists to drive data driven e-Commerce product strategy, including idea generation, opportunity sizing, A/B testing, product pilot and rollout strategy.- Lead on e-Commerce initiatives experimentation, pilot, and rollout, including returns, same day delivery, dynamic capacity, sortation optimization, inventory co-location, etc..- Architected and launched inventory optimization models that unlocked $xxxM GMV annually.- Drove cross-company effort to improve e-Commerce fulfillment efficiency with data-driven best practices.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Lead Walmart’s Inventory Availability and Accuracy model developments.- Lead a team of data scientists and ML engineers to build production machine learning model pipeline to improve inventory accuracy for entire catalog across 4000+ fulfillment nodes.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop long term data science vision, strategy and roadmap. - Drove system adoption and influenced business roadmap to maximize the impact of inventory horizontal capability in multiple use cases, including Recommendation, Search, Substitution. - Developed flexible model framework for common regression models in Scala, deployed production pipelines using Spark Streaming and Kafka.- Evangelize data science team by internal research publications, executive presentations, patents, etc.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Architected and built enterprise data science capability at Wellington, a $1.4 trillion AUM institutional asset manager based in Boston.- Collaborated with investment teams to design, develop, and deliver data science applications.- Set R&D agenda on artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and alternative data sources to drive investment insights. - Lead a team of researchers and engineers to apply state-of-the-art Deep Learning models for tasks such as Text Generation, Entity Recognition and Resolution, Knowledge Graph, Semantic Reasoning.

New York, New York, Us

- As a founding member with data focus, architected and built Ad Tech data models used in organization entity interest from Bombora co-op’s massive stream of web content interactions.- Directly collaborated with key accounts executives for business development and product innovation.- Prototyped and built Bombora’s Company Surge® data product, which outperformed competitors’ by over 200%. The product became the main product of the company and provides $30M ARR.- Lead on development of coral, a proprietary, Spark based library powering Bombora’s data product.- Lead on all NLP projects, including Large-Scale Multi-Modal Classification, Topic Discovery, EntityResolution and Classification, Structured Prediction.- Mentor junior data scientists and machine learning engineers in research and engineering efforts.

New York, Ny, Us

Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representations (Deep Learning for NLP)- Instruct master- and doctorate-level course covering modern computational approaches, using deep learning, to understand, process and use natural languages.- Design and lead lab sessions; create and review team projects; review programming challenges.

Beijing, Beijing, Cn

Independently automated the data system of the energy industry by developing an algorithm with VBA and iMacro in excel;Collected data of 158 potential target companies using VBA web crawler, and established financial models of oil service companies with this dataset using Macros in Excel, applied VCAM systems to predict earnings;Won the bid for the China National Shale Gas Lease Tendering, assisted senior analyst to collect bidding data by interviews and company visits, visualized information using HTML with JAVA Applet, and drafted the technology part of bidding document.

Master Of Science (Ms), Data Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology (Dual Degree)

Exchange Program, Accounting And Finance