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Xin Dong

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Applied scientist who improved Amazon Ads purchase prediction ROC-AUC by 7.5% over production baselines.

United States
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At Amazon, I adapted pretrained Transformers for Ads measurement, building a modeling pipeline from 10M temporally aligned searches, ad impressions, and purchases. The framework improved off-Amazon purchase prediction ROC-AUC by 7.5% over production baselines and extended to customer-level Shapley attribution.

At Wayfair, I enhanced the Multi-Touch Attribution system with an end-to-end feature enrichment pipeline. Evaluations validated against 6 geo-lift experiments reduced attribution error by $3.13M (10.7%), while productionized Airflow workflows reduced model runtime by 14%.

My research includes LLM evaluation, spatio-temporal demand forecasting, and reinforcement learning for bus operations. In a bus-holding project, the framework reduced headway variability by 32.0%, bus bunching by 69.2%, and passenger waiting time by 24.0% over the best calibrated rule-based baseline.

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Penn State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Operations Research & Civil Engineering

2022 -

Grade: 3.9/4.0

Ph.D. candidate in Operations Research and Civil Engineering with a GPA of 3.9/4.0, expected to graduate in May 2027.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Computer Science

2024 -

M.S. in Computer Science, expected to graduate in May 2027.

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University of Michigan

Master of Science, Civil Engineering

2018 - 2020

M.S. in Civil Engineering from 2018 to 2020.

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Southeast University

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering

2014 - 2018

B.S. in Civil Engineering, including an exchange at the University of Tennessee, from 2014 to 2018.

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