Machine Learning, statistical analysis, data science, R, python

Hangyu Xie ************@*****.*** 346-***-****

Education

Department of Statistics, Rice University Aug, 2016 May,2018

Master of Statistics. GPA:3.49

Having taken 17 graduate courses.

Central South University, Hunan Province, China Sep, 2012 Jun 2016

B.Eng. Mechanical Design, Manufacture & Automation. GPA:87.2/100

Selected Coursework

Statistical Machine Learning, R for Data Science, Computer Vision, Time Series, Stochastic Process, Bayesian Statistics, Graphical Models & Network, Fundamentals of Robotics, Design and application of Embedded System.

Research And Projects

An Alternative Bayesian Approach to Cryo-EM Structure Determination via Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (May 2017 present) Rice University, Houston, TX

Research Advisor: Prof. Meng Li

Derive a statistical model and a Bayesian algorithm to do the 3D reconstruction of 2D CyroEM molecules images.

Image processing. Bayesian. 3D image Reconstruction. Written in C++

Kaggle Smartphone Activity Competition (Fall 2017, rank 8/50) Rice University, Houston, TX

Use machine learning techniques to predict types of human activity based on smartphone data.

Do parallel computing at large-scale cluster servers NOTS, DAVINCI and CLEAR

Implement many existing popular machine learning methods like GBDT, SVM, CNN or even ensembling models.

Writing R package of L1-penalized Poisson regression using ADMM algorithm. Rice University

Implement L1-penalized Poisson using C++. Wrap their implementation using Rcpp and build a R package.

Deep Learning for image multi-classification

Comp 546 course project. Build Convolutional Neural Networks to do the image classification of CIFAR-10 data set.

Ensemble with models like Random Forest or support vector machine based on descriptors like SIFT, Bag-of-Features.

Write Face Detection Algorithm By OpenCV.(Spring, 2018) Rice University

Computer Vision course final project.

Conduct statistical analysis and forcasting of Apple stocking price (Spring, 2018) Rice University

Time Series course project. Using different models like ARIMA, GARCH, seasonal models.

Internship And Extracurricular Activity

National Mechanics Competition for College Students Mechanics Contest in the Name of Zhou Peiyuan. (Spring 2015) Central South University, China

First prize in Provincial level. Third prize in National Level.

National Engineering-Training Integration-Ability Competition for College Students. (Fall 2014)

Worked on designing a carbon-free car Central South University, China

Second prize in Provincial level.

Course Grader of STAT305, Intro To Statistics. (Spring 2017) Rice University

Grade assignments of class. Teach students lab projects and how to use software R.

Internship at Sunward Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (Summer 2015) Changsha, Hunan, China

Studied the principle of mechanical digger

Internship at Qingtian City Bureau of Statistics. (Summer 2014) Zhejiang Province, China

Worked on the third economic census and the population sampling

Technical Skills

R, C/C++, MATLAB, SQL, Python, Linux.

Software: Latex, Microsoft Office, OpenCV, TensorFlow, CUDA, Keras, SAS, Large scale cluster

Data Visualization & manipulation tools: Numpy, Pandas, ggplot2, scikit-learn, etc

Society of Actuary (SOA): Exam P

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