Data Science Intern

Michelle (Qin) Peng

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Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business New York, NY MS in Statistics - Data Science Track, GPA: 3.94 May 2019

• Relevant Courses: Machine Learning, Multivariate Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Statistics Inference Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business New York, NY MS in Accountancy, GPA: 3.7 May 2017

• Leadership: President, Zicklin Forensic Accounting Association; Zicklin Women in Business, Executive Committee Member Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Shanghai, China BBA in Financial Management, GPA: 3.6 June 2015

• One-semester National CSC Scholarship sponsored Exchange Program at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy

• Leadership: VP of Finance, Unilever Student Club SKILLS

• Programming: Python, R, SAS, Tensorflow, Keras • Data Visualization: Tableau, Datorama

• Machine Learning: NLP, IBM Watson, H2O • Big Data Tech: PySpark, Hadoop, MapReduce

• Database: SQL, Oracle, SAP • Languages: Mandarin, Korean, Italian DATA SCIENCE EXPERIENCE

Tal Solutions New York, NY Data Science Intern 06/18 – Present

• Built predictive models based on unstructured and imbalanced data using class_weights, SMOTE sampling, Logistic Regression, SGD classifier and Deep Learning model in Keras

• Conducted research on NLP algorithms for calculating sentiment scores and recommended choices of substitute algorithms

• Developed new analytical tool for NLP sentiment analysis on open source data sets using Python and machine learning and algorithms which achieved 95.4% proportion of negative sentiments (Google NLP: 92.4%)

• Used topic modeling technique LDA to improve categorization for customer reviews.

• Summarized findings in PowerPoint presentation delivered to CEO in order to make recommendations based on techniques.

Sawyer Studios New York, NY Data Analytics Intern 05/18 – 08/18

• Developed Logistic Regression, KMeans and attribution analysis in Python to optimize the strategies for Ads Operation

• Automated ETL process from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift in R and developed SQL queries to collect campaign data

• Used The Trade Desk and APIs of Facebook Graph and Google AdWords to retrieve data and perform exploratory analysis

• Translated campaign insights into actionable business recommendations to AdOps team, prepared client-facing dashboard Everfortune Investment & Management (Hedge Fund) Shanghai, China Financial Analyst Intern 03/15 – 07/15

• Performed financial ratio analysis in Excel based on 20 criteria for stock portfolio; recommended investment strategies by compiling economic data and capital market reports Porsche Motors Shanghai, China Financial Analyst Intern at the Controller’s Office 06/14 – 01/15

• Performed monthly data analysis of Balance Sheet, P&L activities from SAP and Excel in comparison to budgets to track trends, identify variances and optimize decision making

• Leveraged sales and financial data to conduct analysis on business development initiatives, including the correlation of product prices and sales and investigated cause of changes, producing report for management to use in strategy discussions RELEVANT ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Regression Analysis: Developed regression models by using regularizations and cross-validation to select the best parameters and predict housing prices with a testing R squared of 0.89.

• Classification Analysis: Built classification models to predict the health status of NYC trees using Logistic Regression with regularization, SVM and Random Forest with average accuracy of 81%

• Time Series Analysis: Used ARIMA and GARCH to model Dow Jones Index time series data and make predictions OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P New York, NY Full-time Tax Intern 01/17 – 05/17

• Built tax expense database to improve data quality through analysis and remediation of data quality issues Sony Corporation of America New York, NY Global Tax Intern 01/16 – 12/16

• Collaborated with domestic and international tax teams to compile tax data packages for over 30 entities using Excel Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Shanghai, China GFSI Winter Auditing Intern 01/15 – 03/15

• Performed due diligence for Asset-Backed Securitization project, including obtaining and scrutinizing financial data

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