Yan Liu

Data Scientist

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building data science products and models.
  • Proven track record in pricing strategy and execution.
  • Strong background in statistical modeling and data analysis.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science expert with strong capabilities in statistical modeling and data-driven decision making.

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Skills

Other Skills

SAS programmingRVBAAccessPHPCSQLSASDatabasesMachine LearningData MiningData AnalysisPythonStatisticsProgramming

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Flex

Data Scientist

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Meta

Data Scientist

Oct 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Confluent

Data scientist/Data Science Manager

Mar 2021Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Working with teams to build data science products, including propensity scoring, linkage mapping, and forecasting models

Linkedin

2 roles

Staff Data Scientist

Oct 2020Mar 2021 · 5 mos

Senior Data Scientist

May 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • ● Built and productionized classification models to facilitate accurate marketing and in-product targeting across different business units
  • ● Defined the true north metric for Premium member value, enabling the Premium team to measure, report and improve Premium member experience
  • ● Initiated new products and features and supported A/B tests to grow LinkedIn's premium user base and improve retention
  • ● Explored opportunities for new initiatives to drive Premium business through deep-dive analysis

Coursera

Data Scientist

May 2017May 2018 · 1 yr

  • Built xgboost models to support various email campaigns
  • Drove business decisions on content strategy, degree sourcing, platform improvement, and marketing by analyzing degree applicants’ demographic and behavioral information
  • Built notebook and shiny apps to monitor specialization and degree recruiting performances

American credit acceptance

3 roles

Manager of Statistics

Promoted

Oct 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Propose and execute pricing strategy changes
  • Quarterly report of performance for different business units to executive teams
  • Supervise statisticians and analysts for projects involving the origination process

Senior Statistician

Promoted

Aug 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Pricing Strategy recommendations with predictive models and simulation
  • Proposed and monitored pricing strategy tests
  • Trained interns and junior statisticians on modeling techniques and business analysis

Statistician

Jun 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Built statistical models to evaluate risk
  • Monitored origination metrics and ran the monthly report

Duke university medical center

Database Manager

Jul 2012May 2013 · 10 mos · Durham

  • Building and testing the infrastructure for data storage and management
  • Designing Access forms to facilitate data entry and minimize human errors
  • Interfacing with remote clinical databases for data extraction, cleaning and import
  • Programming the extraction of data from the study database and analyzing the data with R and SAS
  • Utilizing various statistical models to answer clinical related statistic questions

School of library and information science, university of north carolina at chapel hill

Research Assistant

Jan 2012Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Chapel Hill

  • Developed and Maintained website for Carolina Health Information Program
  • Worked on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning project.

Duke university medical center

Research Assistant

Sep 2009Aug 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

  • Identified several new genes involved in neural stem cell development through analyzing microarray data and literature research
  • Developed In situ hybridization protocol and identified expression patterns of the genes involved in neural stem cell development

Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Master's degree — Statistics

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Duke University

Master's degree — Cell Biology

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Peking University

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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