Andrew Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at Inception
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chen is a Staff Applied Scientist with a decade of experience applying machine learning and combinatorics to real-world problems, currently focused on reducing food waste across the fresh food supply chain. At Afresh he designed production ML systems that cut waste at scale—impacting a meaningful share of U.S. produce orders and deploying pilots across thousands of grocery stores—while also building robust backup infrastructure that eliminated hundreds of urgent on-call incidents. A Stanford-trained mathematician and computer scientist, he brings deep graph-theoretic thinking and practical engineering chops from roles in trading, fraud detection, and academic research. Beyond modeling and systems work, Andrew has organized campus food-recovery efforts and conferences, blending technical rigor with hands-on community impact. Outside work he channels problem-solving energy into rock climbing, ninja warrior training, city photography, and puzzles—habits that mirror his blend of curiosity and persistence.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Program II
• Attended classes on topology and group theory
• Presented theorems on multidimensional vector fields, Program II
• Attended classes on topology and group theory
• Presented theorems on multidimensional vector fields at Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC)• Imaged near-earth asteroids with a CCD imaging system
• Wrote software to calculate the positions and the orbits of the asteroids
• Published results in Minor Planet Circulars and Minor Planet Circulars Supplement
• Continued to track asteroids and comets with the Skynet remote telescope system after the program, • Imaged near-earth asteroids with a CCD imaging system
• Wrote software to calculate the positions and the orbits of the asteroids
• Published results in Minor Planet Circulars and Minor Planet Circulars Supplement
• Continued to track asteroids and comets with the Skynet remote telescope system after the program at Summer Science Program at New Mexico TechAlbuquerque AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (1)
openstreetmap5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asjchen/skyflow_pollution
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
asjchen/asjchen.github.io
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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