Yi-Chia Wang
Data Scientist II, Applied Machine Learning, Uber

Yi-Chia Wang is a data scientist on the applied machine learning team at Uber. Yi-Chia’s research interests and skills combine language processing technologies, machine learning methodologies, and social science theories to analyze large-scale data and understand social behavior in online environments. Previously, she worked on question answering and information retrieval. Yi-Chia holds a PhD from the Language Technologies Institute, part of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her thesis developed a new machine learning model to measure self-disclosure in social networking site communication at scale and used it to better understand the contexts in which users disclose more or less about themselves.