Summary
Jian Qiao is a Senior Data Scientist at Verizon with nine years of experience blending quantitative finance training and hands-on software engineering to build production-ready analytics and ML systems. He has led high-impact projects from network speed testing that influenced regulatory outcomes to backend redesigns that cut API latency by over 90%, and co-founded an AI startup that achieved >96% emotion-classification accuracy using CNNs on GCP. Skilled across the full data stack—databases, ETL, dashboards, NLP, deep learning and emerging reinforcement learning—he moves models from prototyping to scalable deployment. Jian’s work habitually reduces manual effort (saving hundreds of engineer-hours) and improves operational insight through custom dashboards and automated pipelines. Based in Bristow, VA, he combines entrepreneurial initiative with telecom-scale rigor and a persistent curiosity for solving messy, real-world data problems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, 3.65, Master of Science (M.S.), Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, 3.65 at Hofstra University
Bachelor's degree, International Economics, 3.33, Bachelor's degree, International Economics, 3.33 at Shanghai University
Data Science Bootcamp, Data Science, Data Science Bootcamp, Data Science at NYC Data Science Academy