Chieh-Ting (Jimmy) Hsu Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

• Enhanced Vaccine development speed by 80% by automating fetching and filtering data directly from the National Center for Biotechnology Information gene database.• Boosted the accuracy of virus DNA sequence analysis by 50% by constructing a robust statistical algorithm for more than 50000 sequences.• Designed a new drug discovery application for utility and flexibility by building and creating executable documents to handle a diverse range of molecules.

• Led interviews with clients to create a precise scope of the project following the client’s statement of work• Create a skeleton and storyboard for precise value delivery to the clients, keep track of individual subsection timelines for all consultants, and ensure the quality of their work with detailed feedback

• Determined the cause for the loss of 60% of revenue for the clients by tracking 5 consecutive years of financial statements• Created short and medium-term executable blueprints for the clients to diversify their revenue streams

• Increased accuracy of data analysis pipeline to 100% by building a new automating algorithm• Decreased data storage by 33% by optimizing the data frame and data structure of the analysis pipeline• Automated analysis of big flow cytometry data.• Study the techniques involved in bioinformatics and develop software tools to supportrelevant databases and applications. • Aid the development of a Machine Learning algorithm for cell population identification and the analysis of Project Discovery data to aid in developing an algorithm for population labeling.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Co-founder and Chief Operation Officer• Incorporated the startup by receiving 1st place in healthcare stream of District 3 incubator validation program with external judges and a venture capital panel• Built Minimum Viable Product using business strategies from interviewing 100+ patients and physicians • Calculated profitable business model (within 3 years) by obtaining social survey data and confirming the accuracy with local primary care physicians

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• General manager in charge of both bar and restaurant's day-to-day front of house operations.• Reduced inventory by 50% and labor costs by 33% by analyzing sales data and removing low-sales items• Generated peak weekly revenue of >$20K by designing and building new floor plans• Managed 15+ and trained 20+ employees by building a training program and writing an employee manual

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Ran 8 hours of weekly practice sessions by developing and executing warm-ups and drills• Trained three levels of players (beginners to high school varsity athletes) by customizing training sessions

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Tested individual experiments before each lab session and assisted students during lab period. • Evaluated lab reports and provided written feedback to students.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Modelled kink formation dynamics of collagen fibrils using the Gillespie algorithm with tension dependent kink formation rate to compare with experimental stress strain curve. • Derived mean field solutions for model for comparison to simulations.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Improved the Bayesian partition function method program to fit the stochastic decay of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) that outputs the distribution of brightness of GFP, distribution of lifetime of GFP, and the joint distribution for both. • Derived analytic solutions using statistical model for distribution for simple cases of stochastic decay of GFP and compare them with simulation to ensure convergence.

• Analyzed data taken from the atmospheric mass spectrometer from the Arctic observatory.• Compared simulated results from WRF atmospheric transport model with real measurements in the domain of north-eastern North America.

Halifax, Canada Area

• One of the only two undergraduate TAs in the department.• Assisted first year students during lab sessions through responding to inquiries, fixing simple apparatus, and explaining derivations to equations.• Evaluated lab reports and provided feedback to assist students with scientific report writing.

• Updated ‘Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood’ with Bayesian partition function method using C to perform curve fitting on stochastic decay of GFP.• Derived convergence criteria and tested on different likelihoods• Produced Micron size droplets with fluorescein using modified technique of Premixed Membrane Emulsification.• Image analysis of image taken from Phase Contrast microscope.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Developed Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood method and tested the algorithm with simulated probability distributions.• Used Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood method to fit experimental data of stochastic decay of GFP.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Improved Cell Tracking code from Cal-Tech in MATLAB to automate the fluorescence intensity analysis of movies of bacteria.• Produced Micron size droplets with fluorescein using modified technique of Premixed Membrane Emulsification and image analysis from phase contrast microscope.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Captain of the McGill Varsity Badminton Team (2013-2018) Physics departmental mentor (2014-2017) Metlife.

Master'S Degree, Medical Physics

Completed course work as part of the course based Master's program in medical physics before switching back to more research focus program.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Honours In Physics, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Dalhousie Undergraduate Physics Society (2011) Sports Representative of Dalhousie.