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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

+ Currently lead an analytics engineering / data engineering team+ Built a machine learning growth forecasting process for financial guidance and internal planning

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

+ Seq2Cite: Attentional Encoder-Decoder In-line Citation Recommender using Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks (TensorFlow, Python)https://tinyurl.com/yyx4z3ou+ Modeling COVID19 cases via Attentional Recurrent Neural Networks using Google mobility and search data (TensorFlow, Python)https://tinyurl.com/y2or6np5+ GenericDiff: a custom automatic differentiation library suitable for optimization use cases (Python)Documentation: https://tinyurl.com/y6rrmbpq || Library: https://tinyurl.com/y2k8nvm6+ RnaVelocity: a library that utilizes GenericDiff to predict the most likely markov chain of parent and daughter cells from single cell RNA sequences - great for understanding lineage of cells (Python)Documentation: https://tinyurl.com/y4fm2y7t || Library: https://tinyurl.com/y6c8ohve+ Empirical Effectiveness of Covariate Missing Data Methods for Causal Inference (R)https://tinyurl.com/y4bhxdt6+ Spotify Song to Playlist Recommender System (Python)https://spotted-d.github.io/contents/+ Linguistic Cues of Successful Negotiations w/ HBS Organizational Behavior (NLP, Python) - ongoing+ Teaching Fellow: Engineering the Acoustical World

+ Prioritized highest opportunity users to increase Facebook Groups engagement+ Identified power user traits using tree models+ Simulated time costs of engagement strategies using Markov chains

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ Managed 0.5B book of business, driving incremental revenue through measurement, opportunity sizing, and strategic consults+ Led faculty cohort for Google's Analytical Academy, founded Data Science II program and designed curriculum which reached over 100 analysts globally in 2018+ Founded analytics center website and dashboards to drive text, shopping and audience excellence for Hayneedle, Shoes and Walmart, driving ~5M incremental revenue from constrained optimization model+ Led cross-functional team to bring Google's locally-targeted ad products to market, driving 100M in incremental revenue across accounts in the sector+ Formed first bridge between Google ads team and Walmart merchandising team to influence Walmart's assortment strategy+ Recipient of 2019 Analytical Academy Top Faculty Award. Award winners demonstrated high levels of excellence in leadership, collaboration, accountability, high quality execution and initiative

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ Led first long-term partnership between PeopleOps and Global Business leadership, negotiating data access, analyzing internal business tool sentiment, reported to Chief Business Officer+ Produced causal inference model (DiD + propensity score matching) to prove increased seller efficacy when using the mobile CRM product, justifying additional headcount/dollars in Google’s CRM mobile app development team. + Project lead to understand ad seller behavior vs. sales revenue performance, automated a data pipeline and performance regression model consisting of 10+ sources, provided best practices to leadership every quarter+ Built infrastructure for analyzing quarterly surveys on 20 internal business tools, providing actionable insights quickly and thoroughly to guide internal product roadmaps and sales leadership+ Led monthly data science training sessions (e.g. visualization, statistics, machine learning, regression, R) to up level a cross-functional team+ Recipient of the Google Prism award. Award winners solved a difficult business question in a way that has never been done before using creative technical methods. The award was granted for LDA topic modeling on employee complaint comments to mine emergent themes from data.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

+ Created pro forma models and opportunity sizing tools helping banks re-price transactions, resulting in average incremental 2-10M revenue per year+ Created inventory management system for tire company to align geographical car demand with supply, resulting in average incremental 16M revenue per year+ Led innovation on internal Tableau, Alteryx and R tools to facilitate up-skilling of technical and non-technical consultants - created Network Visualization tool+ Provided NLP topic modeling insights on call center logs for client (LDA in R)

+ Oversaw all aspects of data collection, analysis and delivery. Led projects for the following clients: Walmart, Target, Microsoft, Google, E&J Gallo, Kraft (Cafemom), Lowe’s, Mattel+ Utilized SQL, statistical software packages and Excel to analyze consumer data to transform metrics into stories.+ Wrote Excel VBA macros to automate everyday processes for the analytic team.+ Managed analyst team to effectively allocate resources during time-constrained periods, shortening the time period between the closure of data collection and report delivery to two weeks+ Put together daily/ weekly reports for client calls in which custom, rapid data pulls were transformed into client-friendly communications+ Trained analysts and survey programmers, offering support on survey logic, Excel and statistical software packages like SPSS+ Managed survey programming/ test team by developing checklists for content, for logic, and for technical mobile functionality (surveys are conducted through an in-house mobile app)

Boston, Ma, Us

+ Analyzed large-scale cafeteria receipt data to study marketing interventions on food purchases of different customer segments+ Managed longitudinal experiments with Lowe’s Foods to study nutrition label perceptions on healthy purchasing behavior. Designed custom Qualtrics surveys for iPad and desktop environments+ Wrote two faculty teaching guides for Groupon and Sephora case studies+ Wrote psychology papers about marketing interventions to get people eating healthier

+ Managed rebranding of Yorker Seafood Chips, recruited designer and oversee creative direction for the project+ Elevated the positioning of the struggling snack line, multiplying Taiwan sales 3X and enabling entry into China’s saturated snack market

Bishkek, Kg

+ Published a four-article feature on Taiwan’s education industry in the Aug. 2010 issue of Taiwan’s English Language Business TOPICS magazine.+ Interviewed Taiwanese politicians, business executives and school administrators+ Translated Chinese materials to English

Taipei, Songshan, Tw

+ Analyzed employee satisfaction surveys, assisted in creation of new action plans while examining effectiveness of past action plans, instigating improvements in workplace efficiency

Master Of Science, Applied Computational Sciences

Ba, Psychology/ Finance

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