Fu-Yuan comes from a background in mathematical science and is pursuing a masterβs degree in applied analytics from Columbia University. While applying time series models to financial data, he discovered he had a passion for machine learning and using data science to solve real world problems. During his time in the NYC Data Science Academy, He gained hands-on experience in machine learning, data analysis techniques and software development in Python and R. For the Capstone project, Fu-Yuan and his teammate conducted NLP to analyze similarity between companies and predict their performance.