AMIR ZIAI

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TECHNCAIL SKILLS SQL, C#, Python, VBA, R, JavaScript

EXPERIENCE DATA SCIENTIST & FOUNDER INVESD (ACQUIRED), IRVINE

SEP 2013-SEP 2014

Extracted a large data set of Wall St and independent analyst recommendations from

multiple public sources using NLP, which is twice the industry benchmark data set size

Developed regression models based on analyst performance that increased equity

direction prediction accuracy by 30% compared to a Bloomberg consensus benchmark

Ran daily A/B tests to identify channels and to increase engagement KPIs using user

behavior logs and website analytics, which achieved a 25% WoW growth over 3 months

Collaborated with a core group of users selected based on 100 interviews which formed

a close feedback loop for UI design and visualization. Presented at Google NEXT.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYST GREAT ROAD CAPITAL, LOS ANGELES

FEB 2012-AUG 2013

Collaborated with the executive team to map qualitative concepts to quantitative

investment criteria, wrote scrapers for sourcing public data, wrote scripts to clean,

transfer, and merge internal data in Excel format into a SQL Server database

Developed a central web-based dashboard in C# for reporting, filtering and

manipulating company data

Developed a framework for simulation of fund-level risk-return profiles using regression

and waterfall models using VBA that became a part of investor presentation material

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

MASTER OF INFORMATION AND DATA SCIENCE (PART-TIME, CLASS OF 2015)

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, VANCOUVER

MASC, ENGINEERING SCIENCE, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & CONTROL (2009-2011)

SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, IRAN

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING, MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING (2004-2008)

PROFESSIONAL Data Science Certificate, General Assembly

DEVELOPMENT

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), passed level 3

PUBLICATIONS Comparison of regression models for estimation of isometric wrist joint torques using

surface electromyography, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Sep 2011

On the performance of the Pareto Set Pursuing (PSP) method for mixed -variable multi-

objective design optimization, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, July 2010

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