Data Management

Jing Pan PhD

***********@*****.*** 706-***-**** www.linkedin.com/pub/jing-pan/72/173/612 ustcpanjing.wix.com/jingpan

HIHGHLIGHTS

Strong statistical (SPSS and R) and business analytic skill with quantitative data

7 years experience in designing, conducting and report psycho-economical and website user tests

Web and mobile app developer with commutation skills at both business and technical level

UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur 2012, 3rd round qualifier (top 14 out of over 90 submissions)

Completed 3 MBA courses: Marketing Management, Developing Successful Business Plan, and Implementing

New Venture Plans

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program, May 2012

Master of Science with a major in Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, May 2009

Department of Psychology, the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, GA, USA

UGA Dean’s Award, 2011 (5 awardees per year, highest honor at UGA graduate school)

UGA Office of Vice President for Research Assistantship, 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively (31% awarded ratio)

UGA Walter Isaac Award from the Department of Psychology, 2010 (1 awardee biannually)

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, July 2005

School of Life Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China

Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (top 4%), 2005

Excellent Undergraduate Student Award, 2001-2002 and 2002-2003, respectively

Recommended admission to USTC with National College Entrance Examination waived based on the merits of

gold medalist of the Chinese Physics Olympiad, 2001

USABILITY RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Rotation Student, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, UGA, 2009

Applied a spatial model, kriging, in R to predicted eye fixation duration on region of interest of web pages.

Human Subject Adviser, Department of Management Information Systems, Terry Business School, UGA, 2011

Co-designed test plan, documentation and instruction script for human test participant research approval from

institutional review board (IRB)

Co-recruited test participants, co-conducted tests on how consumer reviews affect consumer behavior on

e-commerce sites

Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, UGA, 2006-2012 (consistently ranked top 25% among TAs)

Taught survey techniques including web imbedded google doc questionnaire and survey monkey

Knowledge of persona, heuristic evaluation, cognitive models, and user testing

WEBSITE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE

Earned UGA entrepreneurship certificate, 2012

Selected to participate UGA entrepreneur club study trip to the Silicon Valley, 2012

Qualified UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur 2012, 3rd round (top 14 out of over 90 submissions)

Founded Guimihao.com, 2012-present

- Gained near 700 female Chinese social media followers in 1 year.

- Used Dreamweaver

(can hand code php and html with jquery mobile, “what you see is what you get” with CSS)

- Coded with html and jquery mobile forms to collect questionnaire information

- Gave instant feedback to the user based on user input with PHP session data

- Utilized CSS, media query and jquery mobile to achieve responsive web design on mobile devices

- Applied downloaded JavaScript to achieve events such as add-to-screen reminder, social share, etc

- Edited tutorial videos with added light effect and added sound line in Premier

- Embedded video in html with iFrame

Built prototypes of mobile native app with RedFoundry and mobile web app with XML in XCode.

Designed AB test for peer UGA student entrepreneurs’ beer (barrelandbaley.com) and tea (Dao Tea) e-commerce

sites, 2013

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LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Project Leader, Primate Cognition and Behavior Lab., Dept. of Psyc., UGA, 2006-2013

Project management on spatial cognition, psycho-economical decision making, laterality and MRI research projects

Trained and managed 10+ undergraduate assistants to conduct research and analyze data each semester

Developed and executed an undergraduate research excellence certification system for the lab

Designed an IRB approved human study on economical decision making facing consumer choice problem

Identified, prioritized and successfully met funding ($4000+) and technical needs with cross-functional teams

Programming, mathematics and data presentation

In Matlab, presented animation and sound stimulus, and exported data to Excel for different test conditions

In Matlab or C++ with wxWidgets, read joystick spatial position data

In Matlab or C++ with NI’s own C++ library, sent TTL signal through National Instrument (NI) 6501USB board

to other peripheral equipments

Analyzed data and visually presented results in graphs

- Excel (can write complex functions and make changes to existing VB macros)

- SPSS using logistic regression, etc (can write script)

- Origin (can write script with Matlab)

Wrote scripts in Mathematica and Matlab to build and visualize theoretical and mathematical models

Drew diagrams/proposed journal cover in MS Visio and Photoshop

Results

3 invited oral presentation on international conferences

3 first-authored written articles published on SCI or SSCI indexed journals

2 invited journal article peer reviews for a journal ranked 2nd out of 14 psychological and biological journals

7 conference abstracts on national or international conferences, 2 of which were published.

Formulated 1 decision making model for consumer choice under ambiguity (expected to publish on a top journal)

VERBAL PRESENTATION EPERIENCE

Lab Instructor on Record, Undergraduate Statistics Lab, Department of Psychology, UGA, 2012-2013

1 of the 4 lab instructors on record selected from the entire body of psychology graduate students

Lectured a variety of classical statics models, data analysis in SPSS and data presentation

Seminar Host and Speaker, UGA Graduate Student Conference, 2009

Co-hosted a section that tutored teaching assistants on managing students grades across variety of web platforms

Presented a speak titled “The utilization of ‘vlookup’ function in Microsoft Excel to transfer test results from UGA

Testing Service to WebCT with unequal number of students: An ease of graduate teaching assistants’ life”

Fund Raising Event Hostess, “The Gardens of World Ball, an Evening in the Forbidden City”,

State Botanical Garden of Georgia, 2008

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Chinese (Native)

English (IELTS test overall score 8 out of 9, Band: Very good user, 2012)

Japanese (2 Fully funded study trips to Japan)

- AEARU academic summer camp participant funded by USTC to Tohoku University, 2002

- HOPE internship funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to Kyoto University, 2004

German (Certified at level A1/1, Level name: Basic user, Common European Framework of Reference for

Languages by Technological University of Dresden, Germany, 2011)

Spanish and French (Intermediate)

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