Yihan Zhou 🌉

Yihan Zhou

(she/her)

Data Scientist

McKinsey & Company

About Me

Hi there, I’m Yihan - thanks for stopping by!

I’m currently a Data Science and Research Fellow at McKinsey & Company, working with the People & Organizational Performance (POP) team on AI-driven workforce transformation. My work focuses on building LLM-powered agents, chat-based analytics tools, and end-to-end AI systems that support real organizational and talent decisions.

My background spans financial services, manufacturing R&D, and consulting. Across these settings, I’ve built production AI pipelines, decision-support agents, and analytics platforms, with a focus on automating low-value work and augmenting human judgment rather than replacing it - often through interactive workflows, natural-language interfaces, and decision-focused visualizations.

I always enjoy meeting new people and having thoughtful conversations - feel free to reach out and say hi!

Education

M.S. in Analytics

2024-08-21
2025-08-15

University of California, Berkeley

B.S. in Mathematics and Physics

2020-09-01
2024-06-30

Tsinghua University

B.Eng. in Civil Engineering and Systems

2020-09-01
2024-06-30

Tsinghua University

Interests

LLM-based Agentic Systems Decision Support Systems Applied Machine Learning