Chenfei Lu Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Chenfei Lu Jeopardy Contestant Profile

Chenfei Lu is a San Francisco-based data scientist and economist with an extensive background in empirical economics, marketplace optimization, pricing strategy, and applied econometrics. She currently works at Waymo as part of the company’s Data Science division after previously serving as a Staff Data Scientist and Tech Lead at Faire. Across her career, she has specialized in understanding marketplace behavior, demand modeling, experimentation, incentives, pricing systems, and business optimization. Her professional focus combines economics, machine learning, and large-scale data analysis to improve marketplace efficiency and profitability.

Before entering the technology industry, Chenfei built a strong academic and research foundation in finance and housing markets. During her doctoral studies at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, she researched corporate finance, housing markets, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics. Her research focused heavily on the effects of financial distress during the Great Recession, particularly how lender incentives impacted delinquent mortgage resolutions and how investor participation shaped housing markets. Prior to graduate school, she worked in mergers and acquisitions investment banking at Lazard Freres & Co. and also held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Morningstar, and the U.S. Department of State.

Her technology career accelerated at Uber, where she spent more than five years in increasingly senior data science leadership roles. She worked on Uber’s marketplace optimization and pricing systems, including surge pricing, eater pricing strategy, and demand modeling for Uber Eats. She later led the Eater Structural Pricing team, combining economics, experimentation, and business strategy to optimize platform pricing decisions. At Faire, she expanded her scope into pricing and incentives, memberships, search and ranking systems, and shipping cost prediction. In 2025, she joined autonomous driving company Waymo in a data science role.

Chenfei also demonstrates a strong interest in public communication, accessibility, and AI tooling. During an AI residency at Propel, she created a plain language auditing tool designed to help improve government communications. The tool evaluates readability standards using LLM-based structured outputs and draws from federal plain language guidelines and accessibility standards. Her public writing reflects an interest in how confusing government communication can negatively impact people relying on public benefits programs, especially when language barriers and legal complexity are involved.

Academically, Chenfei graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She later earned both an MBA and a PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her technical and analytical skill set includes causal inference, optimization, machine learning, experimentation, economics, statistics, corporate finance, financial analysis, and data modeling.

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