Leihua Ye
Senior Data Scientist (Statistician)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeihua Ye is a Senior Data Scientist and statistician with 8–10 years of experience applying rigorous experimentation, causal inference, and machine learning to drive product and business impact at scale, currently leading methodology and platform work on Walmart Global Tech’s Central Experimentation Platform. She blends academic training (PhD in Political Science, MA in Data Science) with hands-on engineering in Python, R, PySpark and SQL to deliver end-to-end projects that have generated millions in incremental value. A prolific communicator and featured Medium writer with 600k+ reads, Leihua translates complex methods—A/B testing, quasi-experimental designs, and variance-reduction techniques—into practical tooling and culture change for teams. Outside work she pairs technical curiosity with endurance as a marathon runner, signaling the same iterative, disciplined approach she brings to experiments and product development.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at The University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of NottinghamMaster of Arts - MA, Data Science, Master of Arts - MA, Data Science at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
causal9
rdd9
causality8
experimental-design8
causal-inference8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LeihuaYe/Statistical_Simulation_In_Python
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
LeihuaYe/Python_LeetCode_Coding
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:86 commits, 1 PR, 86 pushes in 6 months
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