Focus areas
Compliance
Working with legal and technical teams to translate GDPR/DSA obligations into system-level decisions, identifying where compliance breaks under real implementation.
Learning
Building foundational ML fluency: classification, regression, ensemble methods, with a focus on how models behave inside regulated systems.
Selected work click a lens to shift perspective
Data & AI Architecture Technology & Data Integration Lead · 5-month project · Ekimetrics
MMM, CDP, AI: a technical integration strategy
In-company project during Ekimetrics' first US market acquisition (ongoing). Responsible for the technology and data integration workstream, focusing on how AI, CDP and MMM systems converge across markets with differing regulatory and technical constraints. Currently structuring integration challenges and framing cross-market platform alignment pathways.
Legal & Compliance Legal & Compliance · SHEIN (Infinite Styles Ecommerce France SARL)
GDPR, DSA and the question of machine accountability
Filling the gap between legal obligation and technical reality in EU systems.
Field Strategy Exercise Independent follow-up · SFR
SFR B2B, a thinking artifact
During an on-site exercise, teams had limited time to respond to a live B2B segmentation problem. This is the independent follow-up I built afterward. Not delivered to SFR. Not a finished roadmap. A demonstration of how I approach a messy real-world problem.
Literature BA thesis · Tunghai University
Faith, doubt and The Brothers Karamazov
A reading of moral structure in The Brothers Karamazov.
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Where my work lives
About
My name is Yu-Jou.
I studied literature and philosophy before I studied data. Nobody plans this path. It just keeps making sense in retrospect.
Right now I'm finishing a Master in Data Science & AI Strategy at emlyon, on exchange at TU Berlin, and interning in compliance, helping organizations understand what the law is actually asking of them and how to put them into practice through ML.
The through-line, if there is one, would be that I'm interested in the moments where language stops being descriptive and starts having consequences.
Currently open to roles in AI governance, data strategy, and regulatory technology, based in Europe. Download CV ↓
Path
Writing
The point is not the end
On balance, and the place that can only exist because both forces are pulling equally.
I keep coming back to this idea: that the opposite of everything-is-different and the opposite of everything-is-the-same might be the same place.
Not because distinctions don't matter. They do. But at a certain point, if you push far enough in either direction, you end up somewhere that looks like the other side. Maximum chaos and maximum order both produce something that feels like stillness.
I don't think the goal is to reach that stillness by dissolving everything into it. I think the goal is to find the point where both sides are still true, where you can feel the difference and the sameness at the same time without needing to resolve them. That point is not a compromise though; it's more like a place that can only exist because both forces are pulling equally.
I studied business and I studied literature and philosophy, and I've noticed something: the further I go into one, the further it seems to take me from the other, but also, strangely, closer to it. Commerce brings me closer to how the world actually works and further from why it works that way. Philosophy reverses that. I don't think either direction is wrong. I think the interesting place is the one you can only stand in if you've gone far enough in both.
This isn't a position I arrived at by being taught it. It came from not being understood, which is its own kind of education. When the world doesn't quite register what you're doing or why, you start having to figure it out yourself. That's uncomfortable. It's also, I think, how you actually learn what you believe.
I'm not interested in conclusions. I'm interested in the moment where both things are still true.
Now
Reading
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Working on
Machine learning fundamentals. Django at TU Berlin. Wrapping up at SHEIN and Ekimetrics.
Thinking about
Whether the act of trying to understand something creates a distance from it, or just a different kind of knowing.
Get in touch
If something here resonates, or if you're working on something at the intersection of law, data, and systems, I'd like to hear from you.
yujou.ting@edu.em-lyon.comA note
I built this site while learning HTML and CSS in Berlin. Some of it is still unfinished. I think that's honest.
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