E07 Zhen Wang, Data Science Manager at Wayfair

In this episode, our guest is Zhen Wang. Zhen is an experienced
health and marketing data scientist who leads the data science
team to support direct mail and display programs at
Wayfair. She is responsible for leading
Wayfair’s innovations in customer-level real-time bidding,
uplift modeling, personalized display advertisement and 3rd
party data implementation.


Zhen moved to Boston for the Insight Health Data Science program
and eventually joined Wayfair when she got really excited about
the data challenges and learning opportunities at their Data
Science team. She is also an avid science fiction reader and also
likes to spend her free time thinking about ideas to apply
machine learning to understand principles of traditional Chinese
medicine.


In the episode, Zhen will share with you:


Why she loves working in Data Science

3 key tips on making the move from academia into industry

How Wayfair use Data Science to influence the customer
journey

Advice on how to interview more effectively

Building the ideal Data Science team