Senior Data Scientist | Abbott Laboratories | Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Menghan Ding has been a senior data scientist at Abbott since 2019, working in the Software R&D division under the Core Diagnostics business. Prior to Abbott, she worked as a data scientist at AIG and accumulated more than 5 years of experience in data science with heavy exposure to fields including Healthcare, Technology, Insurance, etc. She is also the technical chair of Abbott’s Global Advanced Analytics Community of Practice (AACoP), a community of 700+ members worldwide that share advanced and diverse technical skillsets and business backgrounds, and the goal to promote Data and Analytics in business practices. Menghan has given multiple Technical Deep Dive Talks as the technical speaker, and collaboratively ran the annual hackathons and corporate mentorship program at Abbott. Menghan graduated from Northwestern University with bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Statistics and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Kellogg School of Management and Analytics from the McCormick School of Engineering. She has been a fellow scientist at Feinberg School of Medicine of her alma mater since 2019 pursuing research in Clinical Decision Support with machine learning applications. Her academic achievements include publication in academic journal and presentation at international conference for her sepsis phenotyping research.