Yanqiao Wang

Yanqiao Wang is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon, a position held since 2025. Previously, Yanqiao served as a Senior Staff Applied Scientist in AI/ML at Lyft from 2018 to 2025, where leadership of a team exceeding 120 professionals resulted in the successful design and implementation of Lyft's marketplace optimization engine, achieving $300 million in incremental profit and enabling profitability amid the pandemic. Yanqiao's academic contributions include roles as an instructor at UC Berkeley College of Engineering and multiple research positions, culminating in a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Machine Learning from UC Berkeley. Additionally, Yanqiao holds multiple degrees from UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University, encompassing engineering, statistics, and economics.