Lingqiang Kong

Lingqiang loves extracting meaningful patterns from unstructured data and telling stories with them.

Before coming to Metis as a Data Scientist, Lingqiang got her PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University, building machine learning models to decode different attentional states of the brain from neuroimaging data. She also studied the connectivity patterns of cortical nodes when the brain is at rest, a technique that sheds light into early detection of traumatic brain injuries (read: war veterans and football players etc). She later worked at an e-commerce company building search and recommendation tools. In her spare time, Lingqiang likes mystery novels and all things Sherlock. Her favorite food is spicy cumin lamb skewers (yangrou chuan), a quintessential street food in northern China.