YUDONG CAO

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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Nashville, TN

Master’s Degree in Applied Statistics/Quantitative Methods GPA: 3.93 May 2017 Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, magna cum laude GPA: 3.83 May 2015

• Honors & Awards: The Peabody Honors Scholarship ($33,500), Phi Beta Kappa

• Certification: SAS Certified Base Programmer, Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera, Practical Machine Learning by Johns Hopkins University on Coursera TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming & statistical modeling: R, SAS, MySQL, Mathematica, Python, Java, Matlab, SPSS

• Version control & document preparation: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, LaTeX, R Markdown RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

HEALTHCARE TTU, INC. Franklin, TN

Quantitative Analyst February 2017 – May 2017

• Formulated, built and implemented regression and time series models in Mathematica for 2 major hospital clients across the nation to envision their accounts receivable collection and future cash flow, as well as for financial institutes to gain confidence in lending towards healthcare institutes with lower expected credit risks

• Built and productized analytic models in R by transforming statistical modeling and data visualization algorithms from Mathematica into R packages, with version control using Bitbucket

• Coded SQL queries in MySQL for data validation and integrity, preparing clean data for modeling VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Nashville, TN

Data Science Research Assistant December 2016 – April 2017

• Researched and coded Natural Language Processing algorithms in Python, performing text and sentimental analysis on the COCA corpus of millions of words from social media text data

• Implemented Machine Learning algorithms to train Word2Vec and Latent Dirichlet Allocation models to characterize cross-cultural conceptualizations of certain key words of interest TOTAL-APPS, INC. Orange County, CA

Operations Data Analyst Summer Intern May 2016 – August 2016

• Identified and voided potential fraudulent transactions of on average $2,500 daily for a multi-billion- dollar client with logistic regression model, effectively controlling chargebacks for the client

• Improved the reliability of the credit card transaction risk scoring model by conducting chargeback reverse tracking analysis and developing more efficient data queries & Excel auto-filling templates

• Forecasted daily credit card declines and frauds with time series models for 20+ high-risk merchants VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Nashville, TN Research Assistant, Data Extractor December 2015 – May 2016

• Managed and organized databases for 5 major clinical trial meta-analysis research projects with quantitative and qualitative data extracted from 1,000+ published clinical research articles worldwide

• Coded and implemented SQL queries for biostatistical syntheses, transforming former Excel pivot table algorithms into the Access SQL platform and increasing the database management efficiency by 50%