Yiwei Zhao
Data Analyst
San Diego, CA
yiz486@ucsd.edu
UC San Diego:
Probability and Satistics (major)
Computer Science (minor)
Into/Data Science (A+);
Into/Stochastic Processes I (A-);
Numerical Methods/Physical Modeling (A);
Math/Algorithm & Systems Analysis (A);
Advanced Data Structures (A-);
Intro/Analysis I & II (A, A-);
Intro/Math Statistics II (A-);
Data Analysis and Inference (A-);
Modeling & Data Analysis (A);
Applied Linear Algebra (A);
Math Reasoning (A-);
Intro/Machine Learning I & II (A;A)
Skills
Familiar:
R, Matlab, Python
Experienced:
Java, C++, SolidWorks, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ardunio, PHP, XML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premmiere
Operating System:
Unix
Language
Mandarian
Certificate
Piano
Work Experience one-page Resume
Research Assistant / Brain & Cognition Lab / Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD
Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
- Analyzed sentiment within collections of documents based on Sandford CoreNLP, TextBlob & Sentiment 140
- Set up and collected data from EEG tests on categorical and graded Face perception, preprocessing data by ICA
Research Assistant / Ganter Lab /Department of Neurosciences at UCSD
Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
- Built models for bat sounds and focused on segmentation, dimensionality reduction by PCA, t-SNE & autoencoder
- Learned autoencoders such as Generative Adversarial Interpolative Autoencoder (GAIA), Variational Autoencoder (VAE), Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) autoencoder, and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP)
Undergraduate Instructional Apprentice / Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD
Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
- Graded homework, formulated exam questions, answered questions on Piazza and held office hours (1 hour per week) for 140 students in the course Modeling & Data Analysis of professor Eran A. Mukamel.
- Instructor IA Evaluation from students
- Staff Education & Development Certificate
Web Developer Intern / Sino-American Finance Association / Greater Los Angeles Area
June 2017 - September 2017
- Integrated data from various back-end services and databases by WordPress to analysis and predict users action
- Created website pages layout and user interfaces by HTML/CSS/PHP/JavaScript
- Designed flyers, banner, brochure & tickets for events (such as annual summer convention, wine tasting party, BBQ party) by Photoshop, Illustrator & Premiere to attract more people
- Joined a seven people team organizing SAFA summer convention among celebrities including mayor, Hollywood stars & CEOs
- Made two online calculators in JavaScript to estimate the life/car insurance based on user input
Internship / Allianz Insurance / China
July 2016 - August 2016
- Calculated the data for the accounting’s in determining tax, salary and bonus
- Communicated with different departments, relative banks, relative patrons, and co-workers
- Created spreadsheets to clearly data for weekly meeting.
Math tutor / University of Oregon / Oregon
October 2015 - June 2016
- Assisted patrons one-on-one or in small group, with clarifying the learning materials.
- Guided patrons with homework and preparation for exams.
- Helped professors to grade quizzes and homework for Calculus I II, and College Algebra.
Organizations
- Active member, STEMtorship Network Group | October 2016 - now
- Active member, Data Science Student Society | October 2016 - now
- Workshops lead by Daniel Maryanovsky(Sponsored Researcher at UCSD Tu Lab):Native Bayes Classifier; K Nearest Neighbors; Support Vector Machines
- Help to organize the HackXX (Hackathon competition faced 200 CS background undergraduate students)
- Active member, Women's Club Volleyball | October 2017 - December 2017
- Active member, Undergraduate Reading Program, hold by Association for Women in Mathematics |September 2015- June 2016