Su Yang

OBJECTIVE

Full-time Data Analytics/ Statistical Programmer/ Statistical Consultant.

EDUCATION

BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston, MA

MS in Statistical Practice 08/2015-12/2016

Main Courses: Statistical Methods, Applied Statistics in Clinical Trials I & II, Multiple Regression & Multivariable Methods.

SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Guangzhou, China

Bachelor of Science in Statistics 09/2011-07/2015

Main Courses: Mathematics Analysis, C++ Programming, Econometrics, Mathematical Models, Probability Theory, Data Mining.

Honor: Awarded in Mathematical/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM);

Ranked the 4th out of 120 in the telecom products group in the 8th Challenge Cup of Business Plan Competition.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, CA

Summer Session 07-09/2014

Main Courses: Statistics (Credits 5.0, GPA 4.0), Games Theory(Credits 4.0, GPA 3.0)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient in R, as the main programming language for multiple hands-on statistical analysis projects.

Certified in SAS: SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 and SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9.

Experienced in SPSS, MySQL, Tableau, MATLAB.

RESEARCH / PROJECT

Video Treatment for Parent Motivation Inventory 07/2016-08/2016

Conducted a power analysis to determine ideal sample size for survey data including questions as Likert scaled item.

Built up mixed ordinal logistic model in R to determine whether responses of questions were shifting significantly across timelines.

Orangutans Feeding Behavior Data Analysis 05/2016-08/2016

Reorganized data collected from research team based on orangutans’ feeding behaviors which includes food type, status, etc.

Visualized several kinds of descriptive statistics, suggested potential feeding behavior patterns, and proved by modeling in R.

Generated report according to interpreting statistical data analysis results, co-authored in the final published article to be published.

Kaggle Competition - Image Classification 03/2016-05/2016

Aimed to identify characters from Google Street View images, consists of hand-written and computer-fond letters and numbers.

Transformed and resized colorful images to grayscale images and then into matrix.

Performed algorithms of K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Network in R.

HACKTRAFFICKING4GOOD 01/2016

Collaborated and created solutions for combatting sex trafficking online and used data analysis to fight the systematic exploitation.

Built up dashboard to illustrate and monitor the places where sex trafficking is happening in US by R studio and Tableau.

3-D Visualization and Prediction of Spine Fractures 11/2015-2/2016

Made quantitative comparisons of predictions of measurement of vertebra under different conditions of compression.

Visualized comparison results through R studio in form of 3-D and statistical modeling.

Performed ANOVA and TUKEY analysis to reach conclusion of finding difference between simulations.

City of Boston - 311 Service Requests Project 09/2015-12/2015

Cleaned up and manipulated Boston 311 Service Requests datasets generated from 2011 to 2014 using R studio.

Visualized region requests to find patterns for each neighborhood in map and ggplot using R studio and Tableau.

Built up metrics to qualify service by efficiency, request volume, duration and on-time rate and modeled with demographics data.

Wrapped up by Shiny app and presented to City of Boston 311 Service group staff.

INTERNSHIPS

BOSTON UNIVERSITY Teaching assistant, Mathematics and Statistics Department 01/2016-12/2016

Teaching Statistics I and Applied Mathematics for Social and Management Sciences, covering Statistics methods and probabilities.

STORYTELLING WITH DATA WORKSHOP Student coach, College of Communication in Boston University 01/2016

Coached with statistical help for an annual workshop attended by working professional experts from all kinds of fields.

Topics covered ready-to-go coding toolbox as R and Tableau, techniques and tricks, and leveraged data for effective communication.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY STATISTICS CONSULTING GROUP Consultant, Mathematics and Statistics Department 09/2015-09/2016

Dealt with statistical analysis requests by meeting with clients across departments in Boston University.

Developed optimized data collection and qualifying procedures for different kinds of survey questions.

Extracted, compiled, analyzed and interpreted data to generate conclusions and wrote into reports.

Worked with doctoral team to leverage analytical tools to develop efficient statistical methods.

PHILIPS (CHINA) INVESTMENT CO., LTD Intern, Marketing Communication 11/2014-07/2015

Sort products’ data, which makes products traits recognized by public so as to promote the products in market.

Assisted to design Brazil Catalogue project by providing illumination products information.

Monitored and arranged projects’ expenditure and payment.

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