Ya Xu
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Head of Data Science
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Ya Xu has been at LinkedIn for 6 years, and currently heads the Data Science team at LinkedIn. This centralized group has 250+ data scientists distributed across US (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Francisco, New York), India and Dublin. Their work covers metrics, insights, inference and algorithms, and we tackle data science challenges across product, sales, marketing, economics, infrastructure and operations. Prior to LinkedIn, Ya was an Applied Researcher at Microsoft in Washington.
She has a BS in Economics and Mathematics from Williams College, and PhD in Statistics from Stanford University. In her free time, Ya enjoys spending time with her loving husband and two sons. She’s a spicy food lover, a runner, and a skier on the LinkedIn team. |