Zheyuan (Jerry) Chen is a skilled software engineer specializing in machine learning, currently employed at Meta. Previously, Zheyuan held the position of senior data scientist at PayPal and served as a senior machine learning scientist and machine learning scientist II at TripAdvisor. Zheyuan gained early experience as an IT data science intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked as a graduate student analytics consultant at Zurich North America. Zheyuan earned a master's degree in analytics from Northwestern University in 2018 and completed a PhD in chemical physics at Columbia University between 2006 and 2011.