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Master of Science (M.S.)

Lily Qian Zhao

Senior Data Scientist

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere and we are focused on creating an end-to-end travel platform that will handle every part of your trip.

2021 - Present: Global Guest Journey
2020-2021: China Outbound & Monetization

Senior Data Scientist worked on Ranking/Ads Delivery for Facebook Ads Ecosystem (FB, Instagram, Messenger etc.): We use Machine Learning techniques to make every Ad impression meaningful.

Tech lead in the following areas - 
- New Ads Product and Creative Development
- New Model Development
- Feature Engineering
- Model Health Diagnostics

Data Scientist at early stage saas startup (backed by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund; joined after Series C and the company was acquired by Acquia in 2019):

- Built predictive ML models and data pipelines to power clients' ecommerce/omni channel marketing personalized content for their customers.
- Built 0->1 and Customized product & ML solutions for one of the first Airline clients of the company, a major player in North America.
- Collaborated directly with teams across the whole company (engineering, product, design, customer success, implementation, marketing etc.).


AgilOne, the customer cloud, helps marketers understand and predict customer behavior to deliver automated, personalized experiences across all customer touch points -- online and offline.

Department of Revenue

- Improved the efficiency of an existing process by supervised and unsupervised models
- Developed a visualization dashboard in d3.js

Mobile Marketing Analytics 

- Predictive Modeling of B2B Marketing data 
- Vertical Segment Analysis
- Dashboards for market data visualization (d3.js, R Shiny)

Predictive Analytics in Marketing and Retention

Data Science R&D Team 

- Simulated risk prediction in Power System and Electric Grid using R and SQL

-Developed a new management system for an energy company
-Participated in building an ERP system using Emptoris for another energy company, completed system operation test, analyzed daily operation data

Led on the Risk-Constrained Environmental Economic Dispatch of Power System project
Advisor: Vice Dean, professor Chuangxin Guo, Electrical Engineering College, Zhejiang University

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