Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and
Computational Science and Engineering specialization for Ph.D. (Minor)
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL. 2016
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 2010
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2008
Principal Data Science Manager, at Microsoft, 09/2021 to present.
Senior Data Scientist, at Microsoft, 05/2019 to 08/2021.
Data Scientist, Bayer AG Crop Science, 08/2018 - 04/2019
Data Scientist, Monsanto Company, 02/2017 - 08/2018
Geospatial Data Scientist, Monsanto Company, 07/2016 – 01/2017
Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 – 2016
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2013
Research Assistant, Tsinghua University, 2008 – 2010
Structuring ML projects, NLP, LLMs, supervised & unsupervised ML, data visualization, time series forecasting, classification, regression, feature engineering, dimensional reduction, hyperparameter tuning, model validation, production deployment and monitoring, etc
Forecasting, SaaS telemetry analytics, experimental design, A/B testing, environmental data analytics, spatiotemporal data mining, Geographic Information System, scientific computing, hydrologic modeling, complex system analysis, agent-based models, numerical analysis, finite element analysis, computer graphics.
Strategically driving cross-functional partnerships
Experience of presenting to C-Suite.
Proficient in solving complex and vague business problems.
Effective communicator and agile team player and leader.
Python, R, PySpark, SparkR, MATLAB, C++, SQL, NetLogo, and OpenGL.
Azure stack (AML, Synapse, ADF, Kubernetes, Databricks, DevOps, etc.), Power BI, AWS (SageMaker, S3, EC2), TensorFlow, Git, REST API, GIS, Domino Data Lab, and DataRobot.
Microsoft vNext Group Engineering Manager training program graduate, 2022
Microsoft Global Hackathon Award Winner, 2021
Certificate of Graduate Specialization in Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, 2016
Information Technology, Sensors, & Control Systems Technical Community Meeting Paper Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 2016
Graduate College Conference Travel Award, Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2016
Spring Conference Travel Award, Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, 2011-2016.
Excellent Bachelor Thesis of Tsinghua University, 2008
Student baseball team captain of Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2005-2007
Assistant head of internal affairs, Student Green Association of Tsinghua University, 2004-2006
First Prize in China National Physics Contest for university students, 2005
Wu ZhanDe Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2005
Member of field study team for grassland ecological economics, Inner Mongolia Environmental Protection Administration, 2005
First Prize in China National Physics Contest for high school students, 2003