Jeong-Yoon Lee — Co-Founder

Jeong-Yoon Lee is a seasoned data science leader with close to 20 years of experience, leading multiple applied science teams comprising up to 20 scientists. Currently, he serves as a Senior Manager in Applied Science at Uber and is a faculty member at the University of Chicago. At Uber, he leads research and development in personalization, targeting, optimization, and GenAI for marketing. At the University of Chicago, he teaches the Causal Models in Data Science course in the Master’s in Applied Data Science program. Jeong is also leading the CausalML project, an open-source Python package that provides a suite of causal machine-learning algorithms based on recent research. He has co-organized the Causal Machine Learning Tutorial and Workshops (CMLKDD) at KDD since 2021. As an avid participant in machine learning competitions, Jeong won the KDD Cup in 2012 and 2015 and was ranked in the top 10 at Kaggle in 2015. He also served as the co-chair of the KDD Cup in 2018. Prior to joining Uber, Jeong was a Sr. Research Scientist at Netflix, a Sr. Applied ML Scientist at Microsoft, and the Chief Data Scientist at Conversion Logic. Jeong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science leader with expertise in Machine Learning and Marketing Analytics.

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Experience: 15 yrs 11 mos