Cindy Niu

Cindy Niu is a skilled Machine Learning Engineer and Research Data Scientist with experience at Meta from October 2021 to January 2025. Prior to this role, Cindy served as a Principal Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist, and Senior Data Analyst at Capital One between October 2017 and October 2021. Cindy's early career includes a position as an Academic Coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in late 2016, where coaching was provided to undergraduate students in Statistics and Computer Science. An internship as a Data Scientist at LinkedIn from May to August 2016 involved designing a Naive Bayes model to detect users with fake names, achieving over 90% accuracy. Additionally, a Quantitative Analyst Intern role at Yongzheng Capital in summer 2015 included analyzing commercial property data in R and producing a comprehensive report on China's shopping centers for clients. Cindy holds a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Xiamen University.