Chao Shi is a quantitative thinker with business vision. After graduating from Peking University in Geophysics, he obtained a PhD from Cornell in Computational Geodynamics by modeling the earth interior with Finite Element Method and Distributed Computing techniques. In the following 5 years, he worked as a geophysicist exploring the world. During this time, not only did he further sharpen his quantitative skills through a variety of data acquisition, visualization, integration and interpretation experience, he also developed solid business understanding by working on capital intensive offshore projects. Currently shifting his ambition to the data science arena, he is solving problems on exciting new fronts. Chao could be reached at chao.shi.datasci@gmail.com
