Shaohua is the Co-founder and Chief Instructor at WeCloudData. In the past few years, he has trained hundreds of students and helped many of them launch their data science careers. He is also the CEO and Head of Data Science at Beam Data where he works closely with the industry partners on implementing data science projects. Prior to co-founding the Toronto Institute of Data Science and Technology (WeCloudData), he led the data science team at BlackBerry and helped build the data science practice at Kik. He has also worked with big companies such as TD, Canadian Tire, Sunlife, CIBC, Communitech, and MaRS on upskilling their data teams.