YI HU, MS
Chevy Chase, MD
202-***-**** *****@**********.***
Education
Georgetown University, Washington, DC December 2015
Master of Science – Biostatistics (GPA: 3.80/4.00)
Research Practicum: Gender Differences between Health Disparity Measures Regarding Mortality Rates for Young People from 16 Countries of the Americas
BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China June 2014
Bachelor of Science – Statistics
Research Project: Data Mining: Handwritten Digits Recognition
Experience
Data Analyst May 2016 – Current
Kaiser Permanente Rockville, MD
Acquire operational data or medical records from secondary data sources; develop and maintain database for internal use
Generate versatile periodic analytical reports that answer various queries and evaluate performance based on different measures for all Kaiser Permanente medical centers in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland
Automate reports, visualize data and perform complex programming routines by SAS; interpret findings and analysis results
Project Consultant April 2016 – December 2016
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Washington, DC
Projects: Identified Adolescent/Maternal/Child mortality inequalities in between countries in the region of Americas, and how they have changed over the past ten years; predicted the inequalities in the next 15 years
Applied statistical methods to analyze mortality inequalities and their changes by different social groups; implemented linear/non-linear regression/time series models to conduct forecasting and suggested best models
Drafted a scientific article manuscript based on the methodology used and results attained from the literature review and the data analysis
Project Consulting Assistant November 2015 – May 2016
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC
Constructed univariate logistic models to select significant risk factors for developing Multidrug resistant infection in ICU based on 189 cases and 378 controls from Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Built stepwise multivariate logistic models by selected factors and reported the corresponding odds radios, p-values and c-statistics for ROC curve
Based on odds ratios, suggested possible cutoff by results of sensitivity, specificity and ROC curve; developed a scoring system for prediction of infection degree
Teaching Assistant September 2015 – December 2015
Georgetown University Washington, DC
Assisted the professor, Dr. Anca Dragomir, with teaching and related activities for the “Principles of Epidemiology” graduate-level course
Held weekly office hours to explain epidemiological concepts to graduate students and graded homeworks and tests
Health Information Analyst, Summer Intern June 2015 – August 2015
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Washington, DC
Implemented statistical analysis and data visualization techniques for the trends over time of health indicators, and measured health inequality between different socioeconomic or age groups for each country
Created graphs and tables for a special report on adolescent mortality in the Americas
Research Assistant February 2015 – June 2015
Georgetown University Washington, DC
Used the Lowess smoothing method (with different spans) to smooth curves of raw biological data by proficiently using R
Conducted McNemar's tests for array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) data to evaluate the associations between paired chromosomes for 48 cancer patients
Computed adjusted (for multiple testing) p-values using the Benjamini and Hochberg method and interpreted the results
Additional Credentials
Publications
Certifications
Technical Skills
Rajiv Sonti, Megan E. Conroy, Elena M. Welt, Yi Hu, George Luta and Daniel B. Jamieson, Modeling risk for developing drug resistant bacterial infections in an MDR-naive critically ill population. Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease. DOI: 10.1177/2049936117715403.
SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9 Certificate
Microsoft Office Suite, R, SAS, SQL, Tableau, Python, STATA, SPSS, MATLAB
Language
Chinese (Mandarin), English