Yufei was trained to be an experimental biologist in China, and then a computational biologist in the US. He is very passionate about applying his quantitative skills to solve real business issues. After accomplishing his PhD in Computational Biology and Master in Statistics from University of Tennessee, and an enjoyable and fruitful internship as data scientist with Logitech in Silicon Valley, he came to explore the Big Apple and joined the NYC Data Science Fellowship to further develop his data scientist career. In his most recent project, he took on a Kaggle challenge to predict housing price and achieved 10% in leaderboard with a single gamma model after careful feature engineering.
NYC Data Science Academy’s mission is to provide accelerated data science training programs that prepare people for employment as data science professionals and to offer continuing education courses for professional development.
