Mengchen Wang

Mengchen Wang is a highly skilled professional with a Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. Mengchen's experience includes roles as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where projects involved statistical education and advanced data analysis methodologies. Additionally, Mengchen has served as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington, where a probabilistic model for ticket queues was developed. Internship experiences include a Software Engineer Intern role in Machine Learning at Meta, followed by a current position as a Research Scientist at Meta. Mengchen also interned as a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, focusing on brain connectivity analysis through machine learning techniques, and recently worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Nextdoor.