Luke Zhang

As a "Fresh Out of Boat" kid who came to the United State 14 years ago to pursue a better education, Luke finished top of the his class at Montverde Academy in Florida. After high school, Luke continued his education at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a triple major Computer Sciecne, Software Engineer and Mathmatics undergrad.

Upon graduation, Luke decided to start his career at Indianapolis despite plentiful offers from Silicon Valley companies because he believed in the potential growth of Indiana. He led the R&D team at his prior employer, DemandJump, and made significant contributions applying machine learning to digital marketing. During the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, Luke returned to Resultant as a Senior Data Scientist to work side by side with Indiana Governor Holcomb and Indiana Department of Health to apply data science to deal with the unprecedented crisis. He made significant contribution to the Covid project by leading the data science effort. Outside of the Covid project, Luke continues to make huge impact on other clients' projects as well.

Outside of work, Luke continues to invest in himself with continuing education. Luke has taken more than a dozen online courses and earned related certifications. He is also pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Luke loves to give back to the community. He was selected as one of the elite 25 members of Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series (SKL) - Class XLV to learn more about building up community. Luke promotes Indy as the vice president of the Young Professionals of Central Indiana, acts as Indyfluencer Ambassador for the Indy Chamber’s Life in Indy initiative, Indy Chamber Ambassador and IndyHub City Ambassador. Luke is also passionate about STEM Education, other than being a long term mentor for Nextech, he continues to advocate and volunteer for TechPoint and TechPoint Youth Foundation, serves on United Way of Central Indiana Technology Fund Work Group. Also, he writes columns for the IBJ, volunteers for SecondHelpings, and is a frequent speaker and contributor at Meetup groups like IndyPy, IndyAWS and IndyDataScience.

Luke’s hard work have been wildly recognized by the State of Indiana with multiple awards from different organizations and agenics.