research analysis

YUAN

LING

E-

mail:

******@********.***

Phone:

(612)

516-

4737

Address:

61West

106th

Street

Apt

3C,

New

York,

NY,

10025

EDUCATION

Columbia

University,

Graduate

School

of

Arts

and

Sciences,

New

York,

NY

Master of Arts in Statistics, Expected December, 2014

Coursework: Data Mining, Linear Regression Models, Time Series Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, Mathematics of

Finance, Statistical Computing-SAS, Advanced Data Analysis

University

of

Minnesota-

Twin

Cities,

Minneapolis,

MN

Bachelor of Arts in Statistics, Graduated May 2013

Honors: Dean’s list (Spring 2012 and Fall 2012)

Qingdao

University,

Qingdao,

Shandong,

China

Bachelor of Management in Information Management and Information System, Graduated June 2012

Honors: Dean’s list (2010 and 2011), Second Class Scholarship (2010 and 2011), Excellent Class Cadre

PROJECT

EXPERIENCE

Columbia

University,

New

York,

NY

Principal

Researcher

residence”

“Predict the sales price of

Fall2013

Ø Collected and processed data using R

Ø Created and evaluated 13 different models, including linear models, nonlinear models, and tree- and rule- based

models.

Ø Compared models’ resampling performance; selected the best performing model and use it to predict the sales

price of residence.

University

of

Minnesota-

twin

cities,

Minneapolis,

MN

Principal

Researcher

“Salary Gap among Gender, Race and Education in University of Florida” Spring

2013

Ø Collected data from a open database and processed data using R; designed null hypothesis

Ø Used One-way ANOVA, Two-way ANOVA, Tukey's HSD and polynomial regression to see weather the

advanced education level can help narrow both gender salary gap and racial salary gap.

OTHER

EXPERIENCE

China

Life

Property

&

Casualty

Insurance

Company

LTD.

Intern, manager assistant Jinghong, Yunnan, China Summer 2012

Intern, manager assistant (summer 2012)

Ø Got trained of the basic knowledge of insurance and formed an overall view of various kinds of insurances in the

company; assisted the manager preparing PPT for internal training.

Ø Translated foreign documents into English; managed and maintained the Consumer Relationship Management

(CRM) system via updating CRM information.

SKILLS

Computer Skills: Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), R, SAS, C, C+, Java, SQL

Language: Native in Chinese, Fluent in English

PUBLICATION

LING,

Yuan. 2012. “Relationships Between Users’ Attentions Paid to Privacy and Their Trust Degree in SNS Virtual

Community.” Decision and Information. ISSN1002-8129: accepted

Activities

Grader: Department of Statistics at Columbia University (Course: Data Mining), New York, United States, 2014

Volunteer: Sino-American Culture Association’s Annual Conference, New York, United States, 2014

Volunteer: International Student Orientation, Minneapolis, United States, 2012

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