Data Analytics

Xiaohan (Richard) Ding

**** ************ *** #***, ******, MA 02215 Cell: 217-***-**** adb45l@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/richarddxh/

EDUCATION

Boston University Boston, MA

M.S Business Analytics GPA: 3.81/4.00 Degree Conferred Jan 2020 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Champaign, IL B.S Statistics, B.A Economics Degree Conferred May 2018 EXPERIENCE

Z-Park Boston Innovation Center Cambridge, MA

Business Analyst Intern June 2019 – Oct 2019

• Worked with business development director in the development of Z-Club membership service, which boosted the web user conversion rate by over 12 percent in 4 months. Used SQL to create and maintain business database of more than 1,500 clients.

• Performed regression analysis to predict future profiting performance of 8 investment projects by R using data retrieved from Crunchbase portfolios which report investment and funding information for 675,000 companies.

• Derived and evaluated key performance dashboard for monthly sales opportunity and campaign performance (conversion rate, bounce rate etc.) using Google Analytics, and liaised between CEO, COO, and partners with insights and actionable strategies. China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd Beijing City, Beijing, China Investment Data Analyst Intern June 2018 – Sep 2018

• Responsible for monitoring 3 ongoing investment projects and providing analytical support from data visualization to portfolio managers using Power BI, Tableau, and internal financial valuation models.

• Implemented machine learning algorithms for the internal CRM platform, and provided investment marketing insights / recommendations to clients. Performed stepwise modeling and selected 7 variables out of 16 with a 5% significance level. Zhongtai Securities Co. Ltd Qingdao, Shandong, China Trading Data Analyst Intern June 2017 – Sep 2017

• Provided analytical support to product managers and shareholders. Responsibilities included stock price & industry research / modeling, portfolio monitoring, as well as trending of financial derivatives forecasting.

• Maintained bank and enterprise relations, partially engaged in investment consultation facing institutional clients. RESEARCH PROJECTS

Price Matching Machine Design Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, NY Nov 2019

• Designed and implemented a price matching framework using SciPy, NumPy and Scikit-learn for various financial products to pair with the corresponding price model.

• Analyzed and predicted stock price fluctuation by applying Naïve Bayes model with 80% accuracy. Insights of Airbnb’s Business in San Francisco Area Boston University AD699: Data Mining Boston, MA May 2019

• Performed data cleaning including imputation of missing values, tidying of dataset, and filtering with dplyr.

• Visualized the historical trending of rental sales with ggplot2, and selected regression models for prediction.

• Performed clustering of San Francisco neighborhoods using data from Airbnb hosts

• Built and assessed several machine learning models for classification, using algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors, naïve Bayes, and classification trees.

Mean Effective Motivators in Portuguese Primary Education UIUC STAT430: Statistical Learning Champaign, IL May 2018

• Performed binary classification after dividing 12 features into 2 major categories.

• Applied statistical training methods including QDA, Naïve Bayes, KNN and Decision Tree to visualize 3 main factors.

• Boosted overall model accuracy up to 86% in predicting the education rating of Portuguese students based on geological features. OTHERS

• Honors & Rewards: Graduate Teaching Assistant in AD715: Quantitative and Qualitative Decision-Making; Illini Leadership Certification – honor courses completed in Leadership Studies and Public Communication (Coach: Andrea Pellegrini).

• Software: Excel (VBA & Data Analysis Toolpak), R (Proficient), SQL (Proficient), Tableau (Proficient), Python (Intermediate).

• Language Skills: English (Fluent), Chinese Mandarin (Native), Japanese (Classroom-study).

• Interests: Basketball, Hiking, Swimming, Cooking, Acoustic Guitar, Twitch Game Streaming.

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