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DAHE YANG

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**** * ******** **** **. Apt 4, Decatur, IL 62526

Mobile: 781-***-****

OBJECTIVE

A Business Insight Specialist position that will utilize my extensive

knowledge in statistics and psychology.

QUALIFICATIONS

. Eight-year direct experience in designing, developing, conducting,

analyzing experiments in studying experimental psychology.

. Solid theoretical and practical background in psychological research

methodology, analytic procedures, quantitative research, psychometrics,

and statistics.

. Expertise in data collection, coding, analysis, management, and

interpretation as well as using statistical packages and writing syntax,

including SPSS, SAS, and SQL.

. Proficiency in using and troubleshooting in MS Office Word, Excel,

Powerpoint, and Outlook.

. Hands-on experience in different research methods including surveys,

interviews, observations, intelligent and cognitive assessments, and

behavioral testing.

. Capability of collaborative teamwork as well as independent thinking.

. Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.

. Self-motivated fast learner and multi-task worker.

EDUCATION

Tufts University, Medford MA, Ph.D., Psychology

(Experimental/Developmental) 2008

Tufts University, Medford MA, M.S., Psychology

(Experimental/Developmental) 2006

Peking University, P.R.China, B.S., Psychology

2002

EXPERIENCE

Tufts University

Medford, MA

Researcher September 2002 -

September 2009

(Behavioral Developmental Lab, supervised by Dr. Emily Bushnell)

. Designed and conducted studies in young children's imitation and

generalization, learning object-related skills, ability of

categorization, language acquisition and handness development as a lead

researcher.

. Supervised studies in infants' emotional learning, symbols

understanding, and executive functions.

. Generalized different coding systems to deliver behavioral results into

quantitative data and analyzed the data by using various statistical

methods (i.e., ANOVA, ANCOVA, regression, Factor Analysis, other

parametric and non-parametric tests) for all above studies.

. Wrote and renewed IRB applications each year.

. Involved in the design/maintenance/troubleshooting of various research

equipments.

. Supervised over 20 undergraduate assistants for their research credits

and honor thesis.

. Took in charge of analyzing data with various statistical tests for

other projects.

Lab Coordinator, Behavioral Development Lab

September 2005 -July 2007

. Coordinated lab scheduling, supervised and assigned undergraduate

assistants in various laboratory works.

. Participated with the team to implement the ongoing projects and

potential new projects, support team work.

Graduate Teaching Assistant September

2002 -May 2007

. Served as teaching assistant for undergraduate courses, gave lectures

and led lab sessions in following courses: Introduction to Psychology,

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Experimental Psychology,

Research Methods in Developmental Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Tutor in Statistics summer

2004 - July 2007

. Tutored undergraduate students in statistics for social sciences.

. Provided statistical assistance to graduate students from several social

science departments (including large data sets in online e-learning and

intervention program for children with disabilities) and professors in

their dissertation and research projects.

Peking University

P.R.China

Research Assistant

2001 - 2002

(Child Development Lab, supervised by Drs. Xiaolin Zhou, Xiangzhi Meng, and

Li Wang)

. Designed, conducted and analyzed projects in executive functions in 3-

to 7-year old children.

Research Assistant

2000 - 2002

(Brain and Language Cognition Lab, supervised by Dr. Xiaolin Zhou)

. Conducted and analyzed data sets from language processing in Chinese,

including visual and spoken language comprehension, speech production,

language acquisition, and the development of reading abilities in normal

and dyslexic children.

HONORS GRANTS, AND AWARDS

. Graduate Student Travel Award: Tufts University.

2003-2008

. Graduate Student Research Grant: Tufts University.

2004

. Graduate Student Teaching Fellowship: Tufts University.

2002-2007

. Full tuition scholarship: Tufts University.

2002--2008

. Guangcai Fellowship: Peking University.

2001

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS (MORE UPON REQUESTED)

. Yang, D., Sidman, J., & Bushnell, E.W. (2010). Beyond the information

given: Infants' transfer of actions learned through imitation. Journal

of Experimental Child Psychology, 106, 62-81.

. Yang, D., Bushnell, E. W. & Sobel, D. M. (in preparation). Infants' use

of contextual cues for generalizing causal actions.

. Yang, D. & Bushnell, E. W. (2006, June). Do infants learn actions or

actions as causes from imitation? Poster presented at the 2006

International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

. Yang, D. & Bushnell, E. W. (2005, February). Infants' Learning object-

related skills. Invited talk given at the 2005 annual New England Mini

Conference on Infant Studies, Boston, MA, USA.

. Zhuang, J., Zhou, X., Wu, J. & Yang, D. (2003). Phonological,

orthographic, and semantic activation in the speech production of

Chinese. Acta Psychologica Sinica (Chinese), 35, 712-718.

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