Zhenyu Zhao

Zhenyu Zhao is currently serving as the Principal Data Science Lead for Discovery at Roblox, focusing on recommendation algorithms, content exploration, multi-armed bandit strategies, algorithm transparency, and monetization since November 2023. Previously, Zhenyu held the position of Data Science Director at Tencent from April 2020 to November 2023, overseeing machine learning, advanced analytics, and the experimentation program for Global Games (Level Infinite). Prior to Tencent, Zhenyu was the Data Science Tech Lead at Uber from July 2016 to April 2020, leading initiatives in experimentation, causal inference, and optimization, and authored the open-source library CausalML. Zhenyu's career began at Yahoo, where roles included Data Insights Manager and Senior Data Insights Analyst, focusing on A/B testing and user segmentation, followed by SAS as a Summer Fellow in Econometrics. Zhenyu holds a PhD in Statistics from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China.