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Wei Chen

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Little Ferry, NJ, 7643

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PROFILE

Bilingual recent economics graduate with a passion for communicating the language of statistics. Have professional, and academic research and analysis experience in the higher education system. Able to shapeshift between a corner office analyst and a public speaker.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Budget Analyst II New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark August 2019 to July 2020 (1-year full-time contract)

- Managed various restricted funds and monitored transactions. Decreased the Budget department’s time spent on the bi-weekly labor redistribution process by roughly 40% by adjusting and further utilizing the university’s financial transaction system.

- Project lead and organizer for the cross-departmental implementation of paperless labor redistribution process.

- Timely and accurate monthly preparation of month-end reports that are presented to the president, CFO, and other directors.

- Researched and presented the U.S online degree market trends to the Global University Project team.

- Assisting the Enrollment department in projecting the annual cost of scholarships and accommodations by constructing various regression models.

- Presented a series of campus-wide Budget Management Training program.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

- Student Loan Interest Rate Based on Default Risk. The Rationales, Models and Complimentary Policies (2020) Proposed the topic, initiated the research, designed the quantitative model, recommended logical complementary policies, successfully pitched, and defended the idea during the final thesis presentation despite the initial discord.

- Does the Number of College Applications Affect U.S Tuition?

(2019) Proposed the topic, contributed to the model design by finding, organizing, and converting raw data into applicable independent variables.

- Can Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? (2018) Contributed to the model design and conclusion by proposing alternatives explanations to an otherwise peculiar finding.

EDUCATION

MA: Economics, 2020

New York University

New York, NY

Micro/Macro Economics Theory

Statistics and Econometric I & II

Math for Economists

Financial Econometrics

BS: Business Admin, 2016

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

Bergen Community College,

2014 (Transferred)

Paramus, NJ

KEY SKILLS

• Economic/market research

• Statistical and econometric

modeling with R (classical

and Bayesian techniques)

• Data mining and ML

modeling with Python

(Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib,

Beautiful Soup, Selenium

Libraries, KNN, SVM,

Random Forest Algorithms)

• Data extraction, cleaning,

and analysis with SQL and

MS Excel (pivot tables and

various LOOKUP functions)

• Data visualization with

Tableau and IBM Cognos

• Mandarin Chinese

P E A W

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