Zijian Ni
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Prime. PhD in Statistics, MS in Computer Science
- Role
- Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zijian Ni
Applied Scientist at Amazon Prime. PhD in Statistics, MS in Computer Science. DS/ML:9-year experience on statistics, machine learning, data science, statistical inference and computing, data cleaning and visualization.Industrial experience as ML scientist working on recommender systems in top tech companies. Skill sets: Python/Spark/SQL/AWS/R/Linux/Git/LaTeXCompBio: 4-year experience on computational biology. Proficient in processing and analyzing next-generation sequencing data from scratch to conclusion (RNA-seq, WGS, WES). Research focusing on developing Stats/ML models for single-cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics, genomic variant calling and interpretation. Skill sets: FastQC/STAR/bwa/samtools/GATK/RSEM/etc
Experience
Senior Applied Scientist
Jul 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
World-wide Amazon Prime Science Personalization and GenAI. AI/ML team tech lead.
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Science - MS, Statistics
2015 — 2017
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
2020 — 2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics
2017 — 2022
Nankai University
B.S, Statistics
2012 — 2016
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