XZ

Xueling Zhao

Data Scientist — experimentation, causal inference & product strategy.

Most recently Discord
Previously

Greater NY Metro Area  ·  drawn to new tech, math & stats, and business problems

Experience

Full-time
Discord
Jan 2024 – Apr 2026
Data Scientist, Consumer Revenue  ·  New York, NY

On the Monetization team, leading the subscription business — growing subscribers through 0-to-1 feature launches, pricing strategy, and subscriber-retention analysis.

LinkedIn
Sep 2020 – Jul 2022
Data Scientist, Growth  ·  Beijing, China

Drove user growth across the funnel — new sign-ups, onboarding & activation, retention, and winning back dormant users — using experimentation and causal inference to guide decisions and balance trade-offs across competing metrics.

Internships
Apple
May – Aug 2023
Data Science Intern, Marketing Communications  ·  Sunnyvale, CA

Bringing experiment-driven decision-making to marketing strategy.

Amazon
Jun – Dec 2019
Data Science Intern, Supply Chain Optimization  ·  Beijing, China

Building data pipelines and dashboards for supply-chain operations.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Analytics — Computational Science Track
Aug 2022 – Dec 2023
Peking University
B.A. in Economics
Sep 2016 – Jul 2020

Currently Exploring

Blogs & Newsletters

Checking in every week

Books

On the nightstand

A blog of my own

Coming soon — stay tuned.

  • General data-science, from the trenches
  • AI resources & projects
  • Life outside work — ballet, travel, art & cats
Contact

Let's build something.

A project, a role, or simply a hello — I read every note that arrives.