Dr. Yang JIAO

Professor and Data Science Expert | Lead Data Scientist at Coface
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Dr. Yang JIAO

Biography

Yang Jiao holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Pierre and Marie Curie University. He worked as a data scientist at Cdiscount and then at Vente-privee.com before joining Coface in 2019 as a lead data scientist.

 

Education & Degrees

YearUniversityDegree/Position
2013–2018    Sorbonne University, Pierre and Marie Curie Campus    Ph.D. in Computer Science, Thesis: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in E-Commerce and Finance
 
2009–2013    Institut Mines-Télécom    Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management

Professional experience

YearFunction
2020–Present    AI Expert Professor - aivancity
 
2019–Present    Lead Data Scientist, Coface
 
2018–2019    Senior Data Scientist - Veepee (formerly vente-privee.com)
 
2016–2018    Data Science Consultant, Freelancer (Has served more than 30 clients across various industries)

Publications

  • Yang Jiao et al. (2017) "Predicting stock price direction using machine learning: An extensive study of S&P 500 stocks," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Boston, MA, 2017.
  • Yang Jiao et al. (2017). The categorization challenge organized by Cdiscount on datascience.net in 2015: analysis of the released dataset and winning entries. SFdS - Special Issue: Competitions and Challenges in Statistics.
  • Yang Jiao et al. (2016). Reranking strategies based on fine-grained business user events benchmarked on a large e-commerce dataset. In International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Springer, Cham.
  • Yang Jiao et al. (2015). An entropy-based term weighting scheme and its application in e-commerce search engines. ISWAG (International Symposium on Web Algorithms), 2015.

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