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Kam Leung Yeung

@kamleungyeung

PhD data scientist with 10+ yrs in NLP, ML, and GCP. Built scalable pipelines and LLM tools for public safety and platform trust.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a Data Scientist role applying NLP, large-scale data pipelines, and experimental methods to drive actionable insights, in a collaborative, evidence-driven team with opportunities to lead impactful analytics projects.

I am a Research Data Scientist with a PhD in Psychology and 10+ years of experience applying quantitative methods to real-world problems. I build automated data pipelines, scrape large-scale web data, and apply advanced text analysis and LLM prompting to extract actionable insights.

In my current role I designed and maintained production-scale scraping workflows (hundreds of millions of listings) and analyzed millions of geo-tagged posts using Google Cloud and proprietary LLM APIs. I develop reproducible Python/GCP pipelines that feed dashboards and GIS systems and dramatically reduce processing time via automation.

My research background includes leading randomized controlled trials, multi-level modeling, and agent-based simulations to answer policy and safety questions, and publishing in top-tier journals. I translate complex analyses for broad audiences, including an Op-Ed in a national outlet, and mentor interdisciplinary teams.

I hold formal training in analytics and quantitative psychology and continuously upskill through certificates and projects. I seek to apply my strengths in NLP, big-data engineering, and experimental design to deliver rigorous, impactful solutions in a collaborative, evidence-driven environment.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Research Data Scientist III

Current

Loss Prevention Research Council

May 2023 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Scraped over 100M US Craigslist listings and 11M Nextdoor posts, developed NLP topic models and Gemini-based suspiciousness scoring, and automated GCP/ArcGIS pipelines, reducing speech-to-text processing time by >99%.

Python BigQuery NLP Topic modeling ArcGIS

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Iowa State University

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Led a large-scale review of 16k+ published studies on technology's effect on learning and produced peer-reviewed findings that informed educators and policymakers.

Meta Analysis R Python Statistical Modeling Education Research Scientific Writing

Postdoctoral Research Associate / Data Analyst

University of North Florida

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 11 months)

Analyzed multi-source datasets (>1,000 variables) to reveal Sri Lankan farmers' perceptual and behavioral patterns, collaborating with government and university partners and producing four journal publications including Nature Sustainability.

R Python SPSS Data Wrangling Survey Design Interdisciplinary Collaboration Scientific Writing

Research Assistant / Data Analyst

Iowa State University

Jan 2009 - Dec 2014 (5 years 11 months)

Led and managed research projects, recruited and trained research assistants, presented at 8 conferences, and published in Journal of Memory and Language.