Chen Shi

Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Sole accountable lead for a multi-person cross-functional pod. Fill PM/DE/DS gaps as needed, run weekly 1-on-1s and quarterly OKRs, and chair design reviews—keeping milestones ahead of schedule and making the team as the executive go-to strike force for high-visibility ML launches.

CFO “Responsible Spend” Program

• Product-owned an ML employee risk-scoring engine + Agentic AI initial review, unifying compliance across multiple spend channels in under 6 months; now guards billions of annual spend.

Payments Integrity & Regulatory Risk

• Designed duplicate / abnormal payment detection that saves $50M+ annually; led launch of WhatsApp-Brazil customer-risk model—avoided $3.5M fine and met Central Bank audit.

Investor Relations (IR) AI Assistant & Knowledge Explorer

• Co-led the development of IR assistant with sentence-level citations (≥ 90 % helpfulness, ≤ 1 % hallucination) for quarterly earnings calls; scaled into an enterprise Knowledge Explorer adopted by other use cases (Helpdesk etc.).

Financial Ops Automation

• Headed cross-functional squad (Product, Finance, Data, front/back-end Eng) to ship an RNN-powered “Touchless Billing” platform—freed $80M working capital and cut billing cycle 15h.

Revenue Optimization Tools

• Shipped Advertiser Recommendations Engine (+$23M Incremental Annual Revenue, –3k manual hrs); expanded Meta’s Account Receivable credit-limit automation ($1M → $5M) unlocking $300K incremental spend, –24% ops load.

Negative Media Screening Automation:

• Led a scrum team (2 DS + 1 engineer) to deploy an explainable-NLP negative-media filter— -25% false positives, +$5M annual savings.

Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering Alerting:

• Partnered with Product, Compliance, and Engineering to launch an alert-prioritization model— +7.4% investigator throughput, $10M+ savings.

• Managed 3 graduate RAs and performed advanced statistical analysis on biomedical datasets; co-authored peer-reviewed neuroscience papers.