Electrical Engineering

YANG ZHANG

**** * **** **, **** Collins, CO *****

Email: ****.*****@*********.***

Phone: 970-***-****

EDUCATION

- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, 2008 - 2013(expected)

GPA: 3.86/4

- Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

M.S. in electrical engineering, 2004 - 2008

GPA: 3.44/4

B.S. in electrical engineering, 2000 - 2004

GPA: 3.40/4

WORK EXPERIENCE

Data analyst at PetRelocation.com (internship), Austin, TX 2012

- Developed machine learning algorithms for lead scoring systems, using Matlab Statistics

Toolbox and R.

- Collected (by website crawling) and cleaned data, and managed databases, using MySQL

and PHP.

- Performed optimization for lead scoring systems to maximize profit, using Matlab

Optimization Toolbox.

Research assistant at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 2008 - 2012

- Proved a theory on the convergence of Markov chains to partial differential equations.

- Developed a novel method to model large wireless networks by partial differential

equations.

- Performed Monte Carlo simulation for network models using Matlab.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Probability theory and random processes (Markov chains, convergence analysis)

Statistics (hypothesis tests, statistical visualization)

Optimization (gradient methods, randomized search algorithms)

Modeling and simulation (queueing systems, Monte Carlo)

Numerical analysis (numerical method stability analysis)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Machine learning: Matlab, R, Python NLTK

Database: MySQL, PHP

Statistical analysis: Matlab Statistics Toolbox, Excel, R

Optimization: Matlab Optimization Toolbox, Matlab Global Optimization Toolbox

Simulation: Matlab

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Continuum modeling and control of large nonuniform networks, 49th IEEE Allerton

Conference, 2011

On continuum limits of Markov chains and network modeling, 49th IEEE CDC, 2010

HONORS

Shrake-Culler Scholarship, Colorado State University, 2009

First-class Prize, China National English Contest for College Students, 2002

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