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Hello, my name is Yin-Chi

Data scientist / backend & data-focused software engineer, currently seeking new roles

Yin-Chi Chan

Former research associate at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

Data scientist / software engineer with a PhD and 10+ years of research experience in the simulation modelling of stochastic systems — spanning telecommunications and healthcare service delivery. Currently based in the Toronto area, seeking industry roles in data science, simulation, or backend/data-focused software engineering.

My path took me from Hong Kong to Canada as a child, back to Canada for a BMath at the University of Waterloo, then to a Masters and PhD at the City University of Hong Kong. In Dec 2021 I moved to the UK to work as a research associate at the University of Cambridge.

I work mainly in Python, with working experience in TypeScript, Rust, C++, and R — always open to picking up new languages and frameworks. My Erdős number is 3: Erdős → Charles K. Chui → Guanrong Chen → me (thanks to this paper). I also built this site myself — DNS, CI/CD, and static-site deployment included — as a hands-on dive into the full web-hosting pipeline.

Selected projects

Ring Puzzle

Clone of the classic Top Spin puzzle by Binary Arts. Includes an auto-solver based on a greedy algorithm plus an endgame table lookup. Read the write-up.

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HarvardX Movielens Project

R project for the edX course HarvardX PH125.9x “Data Science: Capstone” — a movie recommendation system using linear regression with matrix factorisation, achieving an RMSE of 0.782 on the test set.

academic r
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HarvardX Higgs Classification

R project for the edX course HarvardX PH125.9x “Data Science: Capstone” — neural network classification of particle collision events from the HIGGS dataset, achieving an AUC of 0.877.

academic r
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CodeCrafters Profile

Progress tracker for CodeCrafters coding challenges — building simplified versions of an HTTP server, a tree-walk interpreter for the Lox language, and a CLI LLM tool.

hobby codecrafters
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