Yanqiao Wang

Yanqiao Wang serves as a Senior Staff Applied Scientist in Machine Learning at Lyft, leading a team of over 60 engineers focused on marketplace optimization, with contributions that have generated $300MM in incremental profit and facilitated 70MM additional rides, aiding the company in achieving EBITDA profitability during the pandemic. Prior to Lyft, Yanqiao Wang instructed courses at UC Berkeley and conducted doctoral research in Operations Research, primarily under the guidance of Prof. Max Shen. Yanqiao Wang's academic achievements include a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Operations Research, multiple master's degrees in Engineering, Statistics, and Economics, along with a Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in Information Science and Control Theory.