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Cupertino, California, United States

Cupertino, Ca

7EDU is an education company located at the Silicon Valley. Our educational philosophy is “Study Smarter, Not Harder”. We strongly advocate learning strategies over tactless effort. 7EDU has researched and developed methods to harmonize this strategic based pedagogy with the American Education System, and subsequently, produced a unique, systematic learning curriculum. We are dedicated to serving students in the United States as well as those who desire to receive U.S. education.

Mountain View, Ca

I believe through technology we can offer everyone an opportunity to receive quality education regardless of his/her family background. At Coursera, I develop predictive models to forecast our content demand, build dashboards to monitor our content demand, support external and internal data export and analysis requests, and communicate the insights of data analysis to other analysts as well as the management team.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Served on the editorial board of two international journals, published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed top-tier journals, conference proceedings, and books, and received $400K grants from various federal and state government agencies.Taught graduate and undergraduate courses, mentored graduate students, conducted applied research to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of systems by exploiting the power of the current and emerging information technologies, particularly through machine learning and data visualization.

Dayton, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Provided data analysis support to the Operations Research Team at Kroger Inc. In particular, I applied machine learning and optimizations to better understand Kroger's customers and identify opportunities for increasing sales.

West Lafayette, In

I worked on various research projects funded by NSF, Indiana 21st Century Technology and Fund, and Purdue Research Foundation during this period. Besides, I worked as a graduate database programmer for the School of Education for more than 3 years.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics

Activities and Societies: I worked with researchers from Stanford University and Palo Alto VA to improve clinical decision support.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering, 4.0

Dissertation: “Design and Evaluation of Interactive Visual Data Mining Modeling” Major Advisor: Dr. Gavriel Salvendy

Mini-Mba Program Applied Management Principles

Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics, 4.0

M.S., Industrial Engineering, 4.0

Be, Mechanical Engineering (Focus: Mechatronics)