YICHAO ZHU
626-***-**** j ******@*****.*** j https://www.linkedin.com/in/yzhu0219
San Francisco, CA, 94112
EDUCATION
University of San Francisco expected June 2017
Master of Science in Analytics (MSAN)
Core courses: Machine Learning, Relational Databases, Statistics, Data Acquisition, Data Visualization Shanghai University of Finance and Economics June 2016 Information management and information system
Core courses: Database, Management Information System, Advanced Algebra, Object-Oriented Program Design Exchange Program: Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France February 2015 EXPERIENCE
Data Analyst Intern at UCSF School of Medicine October 2016 present Department of Ophthalmology
Assisted with the project "Ophthalmic Seasonality and Outbreak detection from social media posts."
Worked on data acquisition using Python, twitter API, AWS and digitalocean.
Estimated missing location for regional outbreak of pinkeye
Predicted likelihood distribution of trachoma in 2020 Intern at P zer Inc.,Shanghai O ce July 2015 June 2016 Business Operation Department
Wrote queries to obtain sales and product information from databases using SQL
Maintained databases by updating data and removing outdated tables
Created monthly business reports for personal, group and regional sales data
Created comparative quarterly reports about sales data for di erent channel types
Ranked personal and group sales performance with SQL PROJECTS
Machine Learning
Wrote a collaborative ltering algorithm to predict movie reviews ratings using a dataset of Net
ix ratings.
Used Pearson coe cient to calculate user similarity
The mean squared error was 0.8899
Data Visualization
The dataset contains the
ights information from 20 unique carriers in the U.S. in year 2008.
Used techniques of line chart, map plot, bubble plot, bar chart and Sankey plot Nature Language Processing
Predicted the sentiment of certain tweets(negative, neutral, positive)
Created features and reduced the misclassi cation rate from 0.41 to 0.26.
Used Linear Discriminant Analysis as classi er
Application Development
Developed an App to decide the mode of travel between
ying and driving
Used data from Google direction API, weather API and gas price API
Create an algorithm which supported our recommendation SKILLS
SQL(Postgres,My SQL) Python(Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn), R,Spark, AWS(EC2,S3,EMR), digitalocean