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Coco Dong

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Director, Quantitative Applications at Deerfield Management Company

Yonkers, New York, United States

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About

Coco Dong, Ph.D. is a Director of Quantitative Applications on the Deerfield Intelligence team, having joined Deerfield in 2020 as a Senior Genetic Data Scientist before moving to the Intelligence team in 2023. She previously worked as a strategist at Goldman Sachs and a principal statistician at GlaxoSmithKline, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from USC.

Experience

  1. Deerfield ManagementDirector, Quantitative Applicationscurrent2023 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. Deerfield ManagementSenior Genetic Data Scientist2020 — 2022New York, New York, United States
  3. Deerfield ManagementGenetic Data Scientist2020New York, New York, United States
  4. Goldman SachsStrategist2018 — 2020New York, New York
  5. GSKPrincipal Statistician2017 — 2018Collegeville, Pennsylvania
  6. Columbia University Irving Medical CenterStaff Research Associate2016 — 2017New York, New York
  7. University of Southern CaliforniaResearch Assistant2012 — 2016Los Angeles, California
  8. GoogleData Scientist (GSoC)2016Greater Los Angeles Area
  9. BGI GroupBioinformatics Scientist2011 — 2012Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Skills & more

Machine LearningAlgorithmsGenomics

Languages Chinese · English

  • Series 63 — FINRA
  • Series 7 — FINRA

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Who is Coco Dong?
Coco Dong, Ph.D. is a Director of Quantitative Applications on the Deerfield Intelligence team, having joined Deerfield in 2020 as a Senior Genetic Data Scientist before moving to the Intelligence team in 2023. She previously worked as a strategist at Goldman Sachs and a principal statistician at GlaxoSmithKline, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from USC.
Where does Coco Dong work?
Coco Dong is Director, Quantitative Applications at Deerfield Management Company.
Where did Coco Dong go to school?
Coco Dong studied at Baruch College (Master of Science - MS, Financial Engineering); University of Southern California (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics); University of Southern California (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science).

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