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Xueling Zhao
Data Scientist — experimentation, causal inference & product strategy.
Most recently
Discord
Previously
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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.
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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
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Currently Exploring
Blogs & Newsletters
Checking in every week
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
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Let's build something.
A project, a role, or simply a hello — I read every note that arrives.
xuelingzhaoxz@gmail.com