CV

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Education

• Ph.D. student in Social Welfare | 08/2018-present
  Designated Emphasis in Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  Departmental fellowship award
  GPA 3.96/4.0
  Applied Data Science Certificate
  Data Scientist with R/Python Track Certificate (Datacamp, 04/2019)
  

• Master of Science in Social Administration | 09/2015 - 05/2017
  Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  GPA 3.53/4.0

• Bachelor of Arts in Communication | 09/2011 - 06/2015
  Shanxi University, Shanxi, China
  GPA 85/100 & Rank 8/41
  Outstanding Graduates, Second/Third Prize and Excellent Student Scholarship Award
  

Work experience

• D(Data)-Lab, Berkeley, CA
  Data Science Consultant 10/2019 – present
  
  • Provided consulting service for the students with R, Python, geographic information system (GIS), and machine learning questions at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Collaborated with students in one Kaggle competition and increased the prediction rate from 83% to 90% via an NLP model. Finally, we got No.4 among the total 50 teams
  • Helped students build their research design and make their research project move forward
• University of Washington eScience Institute, Seattle, WA
  Data Science for Social Good Fellow 06/2022 – 08/2022
  
  • Built a Python package for the project partner to create a customized database for their work
  • Created a live map to reflect the gap between Self Sufficiency Standard and the Poverty line
  • The package and database speed up analyses like city comparison, from 3 hours to 5 minutes
• Guizhou Berkeley Big Data Innovation Research Center, Berkeley, CA
  Research Associate/Data Scientist 09/2017 – 07/2018
  • Conducted literature reviews about left-behind children and aging services in China for Professor Susan Stone and Professor Andrew Scharlach; helped prepare reports and presentations
  • Cleaned and analyzed government data from four departments in Guiyang via R and Python as a coder supervisor, wrangling over 1 million individuals’ information linked through 200+ tables
  • Assisted Guiyang city government in establishing rules for collecting data and building datasets
  • Provided consultation on how to apply data science to social goods and related policies

Skills

• Programming skills in Python, R, and proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Familiar with Machine Learning (Cluster Analysis, Decision Tree),
  Deep Learning (Neural Network (Kears, Tensorflow)) and
  Natural Language Processing (Word2Vec, RNN)
• Experience in HTML, SPSS, C++, STATA and ArcGIS.
• Native in Mandarin and fluent in English.
• Enjoy photography and familiar with Finalcut, Photoshop and Lightroom