Julia Zhao
About Julia Zhao
Julia Zhao is a Manager at CIBC's Risk Data Management Office, Trading Credit Risk, and a Data Science Consultant at Beam Data. She has extensive experience in risk management and data science, with a strong educational background in statistics and data science.
Current Role at Beam Data
Julia Zhao currently works at Beam Data as a Data Science Consultant. Since 2020, she has been engaged in various data science projects in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her role involves developing machine learning-based data products, automating ETL pipelines, and ensuring solutions meet both time and budget constraints. She has collaborated with an EdTech client to build a partnership platform and led several key initiatives, including sprint planning meetings and review sessions.
Role at CIBC
Julia Zhao has been serving as Manager for the Risk Data Management Office in Trading Credit Risk at CIBC since 2014. Located at 161 Bay Street in Toronto, her responsibilities involve managing credit risk data and overseeing related analytical processes. Previously, from 2010 to 2014, she worked as a Senior Risk Analyst in Capital Market Risk Management at CIBC. In this capacity, she played a crucial role in analyzing and mitigating market risks.
Experience at RBC Investor & Treasury Services
Between 2008 and 2010, Julia Zhao held roles at RBC Investor & Treasury Services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She first worked as a Derivatives Analyst for nine months, where she was responsible for the analysis of derivatives trades. Subsequently, she served as a Trade Management Officer for one year, contributing to the management and execution of trading operations.
Educational Background and Expertise
Julia Zhao has pursued extensive education in data science and quantitative fields. She achieved a Postgraduate Degree in Applied Data Engineering & Architecture from WeCloudData in 2022, and a MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science from MITx Courses from 2021 to 2022. Additionally, she earned a Postgraduate Degree in Big Data for Data Scientists from WeCloudData in 2021 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Data Science and Big Data in 2020. Julia Zhao also holds a Master's degree in Statistics with a Concentration in Financial Mathematics and an Honors Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science with Economics, both from Western University.
Notable Projects and Achievements
Julia Zhao has led and contributed to various significant data science projects. She developed an ML-based data product for a business partnership platform in collaboration with an EdTech client and automated data collection and ETL pipelines for an EdTech startup. Additionally, she achieved a 98% prediction accuracy rate using a random forest model for a scam bot detection app and successfully deployed the machine learning model as an AWS Lambda function.