Andrew Zheng

Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

Experience

  • Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • Sole Proprietor at Sole Proprietor
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • AI Research Scientist at Cimulate
    Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

  • PHD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Sep 2017 - May 2023 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Data Scientist at Uber
    Feb 2015 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    UberPOOL Match Optimization Team(current) - Designed and deployed a dynamic programming approach to make dispatch decisions, using boosted trees to predict outcomes. Rolling out globally. - Derived theoretical bounds on efficiency gains from matching under various constraints, setting goals and directions for improving the matching algorithm. Uber Commute Team: - Founding data scientist: set team roadmaps, constructed data models, and designed experimentation and rollout plans. - Designed matching and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize economic welfare. Other: - Applied clustering and classification algorithms to recommend pickup locations to riders. - Contributed heavily to internal R packages for experimentation and internal APIs. Taught in-house courses for data scientists in R and Shiny.