Meet the Instructors

Shawn Chai

Principal Data Science Manager, Microsoft

Shawn Chai is a principal data science manager at Microsoft, where he leads on enterprise-scale A/B experimentation and on-client machine learning of the Windows operating system. Before joining Microsoft, he was a statistician at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where his work focused on clinical statistics and high-dimensional genomics.

Chai has more than 13 years of experience as a data scientist, statistician and data science manager. He collaborates with business executives, software developers, product managers, creative designers and scientific researchers. Academically, Chai has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited more than 2,600 times. He has a master’s in statistics from Oregon State University.

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