Rachelle Du

**** ***** **** **., ******* Grove, IL 60089 ● 646-***-**** ● actfph@r.postjobfree.com

DATA SCIENCE EXPERIENCE

SAS Certified Base Programmer SAS 9

SAS Certified Advanced Programmer SAS 9

Online training: Machine Learning – Coursera; Data Science Specialization Series – Coursera; Python – Codecademy

Projects: compared a few models (logistic regression, neural network, classification tree) to predict breast cancer; built pricing model for wind loss of home insurance

EMPLOYMENT Alfred University, Alfred, NY 08/2008 – present

Tenured Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Division of Mathematics

Led the mathematics and statistics undergraduate program and conducted independent research

Taught twelve different mathematics courses from freshman to senior classes, covering probability and statistics, calculus, differential equations, operational research, number theory, and linear algebra

Advised students in independent study and research, and Actuarial Exams preparation

Practiced flipped classroom and online classes in teaching

Research topics include numerical methods on reaction-diffusion equation in fluid dynamics, linear algebra, partial differential equation (PDE), sparse matrix

Administration work includes committee services, organizing academia conference, holding high school contest, running math club

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 09/2002–07/2008

Research and Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department

Researched additive Schwarz preconditioner, singular homogeneous systems in Markov chain, control problems governed by PDE; taught undergraduate courses

Found the convergence of additive Schwarz preconditioner

Solved the singular homogeneous systems arising from Markov chain modeling

Created inexact GMRES method to solve PDE in control problems

DongRui Software Corporation, Dalian, China 10/2001–12/2001

Intern

Developed new algorithm for image processing of fish-eye lens

SKILLS SAS, R, Python, SQL, Predictive Modeling, Matlab, Latex, Grapher, Maple

CERTIFICATES Society of Actuaries: Exam P- Probability, Grade 8

Society of Actuaries: Exam FM- Financial Mathematics, Grade 8

Alfred University Excellence in Teaching Awards

EDUCATION Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D and M.S. in Applied Mathematics, August 2008 (GPA: 3.96/4.0)

Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

B.S. in Applied Mathematics, July 2000 (Graduate with honor)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Xiuhong Du, Marcus Sarkis, Christian E. Schaerer, Daniel B. Szyld. Inexact and truncated Parareal-in-Time Krylov Subspace Methods for Parabolic Optimal Control Problems, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, 2013; 40: 36-57

Xiuhong Du, Eldad Haber, Maria Karampataki, Daniel B. Szyld. Varying Iteration Accuracy Using Inexact Conjugate Gradients in Control Problems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Mathematics, Computational Geometry and Statistics

(CMCGS), 2013, 29-38

Xiuhong Du, Daniel B. Szyld. Inexact GMRES on Linear Singular Systems, BIT Numerical Mathematics, 2008; 48: 511-531 More available on request

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