Computer Science Insurance

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April 13, 2016

Ying Xing

EDUCATION

Boston University Expected May 2016

Master of Science in Actuarial Science

GPA: 3.7/4.0

Awards: Student Scholarship by Boston University in 2014-2015

Jinan University Sep. 2010 – Jul. 2014

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Technology

GPA: 87/100

Awards: First Class Scholarship by Jinan University in 2011-2012

Second Class Scholarship by Jinan University in 2010-2011

COURSE WORK & SKILLS

Machine Learning: Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic Modeling, San Francisco Crime Prediction (kaggle.com), Text Document Classification

Actuarial and Financial Data Analysis: Calculated premiums for automobile insurance policies

Programming Capacity: C, SQL, MATLAB, R, Visual Basic, Access, SAS

EXPERIENCE

Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China Ltd. Jun. 2015 – Aug. 2015

Actuarial Internship

Used SAS to extract policy data and calculate loss ratio.

Updated excel sheets and predicted the company’s solvency.

Performed sensitivity test and analyzed the result.

Teaching Fellow of Boston University Sep. 2014 – May. 2015

Teaching assistant for undergraduate statistics in Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Art & Science in Boston University.

PROJECTS

Information Rate Evaluation of Multilevel Flash Memory Jan. 2014 – May. 2014

Advisor: Huang Xiujie

Modeled the m-level flash memory channel as an m-amplitude-modulation channel with additive Gaussian noise.

Computed the optimal input distribution and information rate.

Accurate Measurement of Contact Binaries Dec. 2012 – Mar. 2013

Advisor: Prof. Peng Qingyu

Extracted data from astronomical images.

Wrote algorithms to fit two-dimensional Gauss function, computed the luminosity and position of binary stars and measured the error range.

Programed with C, reported and analyzed the results.

EXAMS

SOA Exam 1/P : Completed November, 2014 (9/10)

SOA Exam 2/FM : Completed April, 2015 (9/10)