Hsiao-Fang “Kathy” Chen
323-***-**** • adlqd3@r.postjobfree.com • linkedin.com/in/kathychenhf/
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business – Los Angeles, CA May 2021 (expected) Master of Science, Business Analytics & Data Science (STEM); GMAT: 730
• Related Courses: SQL/NoSQL Databases, Statistical Computing & Data Modeling, Time Series Analysis, Machine Learning, Simulation & Optimization, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Mining, Monte Carlo Simulation National Chengchi University – Taipei, Taiwan Class of 2016 Bachelor of Business Administration, International Business Bachelor of Science, Digital Content Technology, Dept. of Computer Science
• Business Courses: Statistics, Design Thinking, International Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior
• Technology Courses: Interactive Product and System Design, 3D Game Animation, Web Programming
• Leadership: Event planner & UX/UI designer for Digital Content Technology Graduation Exhibition WORK EXPERIENCE
iMedX Inc. – Atlanta, GA June 2020 – Aug 2020
HealthTech firm with 3000 employees & annual revenue of $87M, offering revenue cycle management & analytics solutions Data Analyst Intern, Clinical Informatics
• Performed exploratory data analysis and feature engineering of 350K data and created dashboards with 15+ key metrics to reveal patient makeup & clinical complexity associated to diseases (Excel, Tableau)
• Built binary logistic regression and ML models to predict denial of medical insurance claims (SQL, Python) National Chengchi University – Taipei, Taiwan Aug 2018 – July 2019 Research Assistant, IoT Robot Lab
• Developed chatbot and interactive mobile apps on humanoid robot Pepper using Android Studio and Python
• Conducted robotics and wearable device market research for National Ministry of Science and Technology
• Established annual plan to promote lab’s patented product, wearable sensors for cyber-physical system, and to identify its business models for FinTech evolution, live performance, and early childhood education DBS Bank – Taipei, Taiwan July 2016 – Dec 2017
Credit Analyst, Corporate and Investment Banking
• Financial Modeling: Built financial projection models to evaluate underlying risks and detect fraud for clients
• Industry Research: Delivered over 60 in-depth credit reports to assess creditworthiness based on client research for corporates with annual sales of $USD15-60M USD in electronics, manufacturing and wholesale industries
• Project Management: Collaborated with different cross functional teams and departments to ensure on-time delivery to 50+ group-based projects, including loaning, factoring, and M&A cases
• Client Facing: Advised clients on financing strategies and investment trends to facilitate their business operations ANALYTICS PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Online Shopping Recommendation System – Los Angeles, CA Aug 2020 – Dec 2020
• Built a content-based recommendation system to suggest frequent itemsets and personalized clothing combinations on the basis of item keywords and user reviews using NLP techniques (TF-IDF, cosine similarity, word2vec) Time Series Forecasting Project – Los Angeles, CA Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 A project for Southern California Edison (SCE) to improve forecast accuracy and balance daily supply/demand
• Built time series models (Seasonal Naive, Theta, Exponential Smoothing, ARIMA, Holt-Winters, Neural Network, Gradient Boosted Tree) to forecast electrical load and improve overall MAPE from 5.4% to 3.8%
• Promoted to graduate teaching assistant for the same class in the following semester TECHINCAL SKILLS & INTERESTS
Language: Python, R, SQL, NoSQL, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spark Data Visualization: Tableau, Adobe Analytics, matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot2 Tool Set: Excel, PowerPoint, R Studio, Jupyter Notebook, Bloomberg Specialization: Data Science, Statistical modeling, Quantitative analysis, Financial modeling, Risk analysis