Project Manager Assistant

Rukan Shao

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Education:

University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2013-2016

MS in Computer Science GPA: 3.28

Villanova University, Villanova, PA 2012

Took CS courses part time to ful ll graduate application requirements The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2007-2011

BS with honors in Engineering Science and Mechanics Major GPA: 3.83

Minor in Mathematics

Skills

Matlab, C++, Java, Python, OpenGL, Database

Experience:

Biocybernetics Lab at UCLA Summer 2014 - Spring 2016

Applied machine learning to thyroid hormone dynamics.

Extended a model of thyroid hormones to better t data in thyrotoxic conditions.

Implemented a complicated multi-compartmental model in Matlab.

Analyzed model simulations with various numerical methods and statistics. Teaching Assistant at UCLA Fall 2015

Taught a number of modelling tools such as:

Matlab, Vissim, Dimsum, SAAM II, and COMBOS.

Teaching Assistant for the Computational and Systems Biology class at UCLA.

Held bi-weekly o ce hours and discussions every Friday. Senior Capstone Project at Penn State Spring 2010 - Spring 2011

Created a neural network model of a brain using Matlab.

Modeled electrical activity and mechanical behavior of the brain using Matlab.

An interesting, deep, but unfamiliar topic that entailed a large amount of reading research papers and textbooks for background information.

Presented research at the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) at Vancouver, Canada during Summer 2011 Center Nanoscale Systems REU at Cornell Summer 2010

Experienced work in a research environment by collecting data, maintaining a lab notebook, and nding creative solutions to hurdles in experiments.

Demonstrated through experiments, that my supervisor’s design for an actuator would be feasible when scaled down to a nano-scale device.

Built a proof of concept for an actuator using a circuit board. Project Management at GE Spring 2009 - Summer 2009

Facilitated electrical equipment orders worth up to $100,000.

Assisted a small project manager in multi-million dollar orders.

Monitored dozens of customer orders each day, and kept them on schedule. Research Intern at UPenn Summer 2006

Research eld: Immune inhibitory mechanism by regulatory T cells

Experiment methods: mammalian cell culture, plasmid DNA extraction gel electrophoresis, PCR, mammalian cell transfection Hobbies

Mod Author for video games, primarily Skyrim and XCom 2.

Over 100,000 lines of code written between all my content.

Applied a variety of languages including C++, Java, UnrealScript, and Papyrus.

Source code available: https://github.com/rukan

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