Chengfang Duan

Chengfang Duan is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, Chengfang served as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the same university, focusing on design optimization and lab instruction. They also held the position of Data Scientist at Edward Jones, where they specialized in portfolio and trade schedule optimization. At Wayfair, Chengfang advanced through roles from Machine Learning Scientist II to Senior Machine Learning Scientist, leading projects in marketing measurement and predictive modeling. Chengfang's expertise encompasses machine learning, optimization, and end-to-end solutions in production at scale.