Alex Zhang

Sr Research Scientist
Sunnyvale, California

Alex Zhang is a Sr Research Scientist with Verizon Media Group, working on search and advertising related analytics. Alex has extensive experiences in turning data into actionable insights, by finding and applying state-of-the-art modeling and optimization techniques to business problems in marketing, sales, and information services. Previously, he has worked as a researcher with Hewlett-Packard Labs and a data scientist with Hewlett Packard Enterprise global marketing. Alex taught for 7 years as assistant professor at Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California, after he earned a PhD in industrial Engineering from Stanford University.


Advertising Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, User Modeling and Personalization