Lan Zhang Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Seattle, WA, US

Mclean, VA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

• Host weekly office hours to provide students with guidance and support on homework assignments
• Assist with the grading of problem sets, lab-based coding activities, and development of capstone projects in 250+ person class

Mclean, VA, US

• Refactored custom view classes in Swift for user interface components of the Capital One Mobile iOS application
• Wrote unit tests for API requests, data managers, and view models of the Teen Checking mobile widget to increase code coverage from 12% to 85%

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

• Oversaw yearlong process of managing and coordinating logistics for the 2019 HPAIR Asia Conference in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
• Reviewed applications, conducted interviews, and finalized admissions decisions for conference applicants

Cambridge, MA, US

• Coordinated event venue reservations and logistics for the HPAIR 2018 Harvard Conference (4 days, 300+ delegates)
• Designed track vision, panels, and seminars; secured 12 speakers for inaugural “Art, Media, and Culture” track at the HPAIR 2018 Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (5 days, 500+ delegates)

Washington, DC, US

• 2019 Civic Digital Fellow, Coding It Forward
• Implemented segment of a machine learning pipeline that uses public data to automate the industry classification code assignment process for 5.9 million U.S. business establishments
• Conducted analysis and visualization of Economic Census response rates and data quality – identified areas for potential savings and formulated methods to apply ML technology to Census surveys in production
• Invited to present findings to U.S. Census Bureau executive staff, including Deputy Director & COO Ron Jarmin, and to an audience of 300 consisting of leaders in the civic technology space
• Contributed to projected savings of $1.2 million

Guangzhou, 广州市, Guangdong, 广东, CN

• Built web crawlers in Python to scrape data on U.S. higher education
• Analyzed collected data in Python and R, authored and presented reports summarizing findings in PowerPoint
• Tracked latest academic research and industry application of AI and big data in financial data model construction

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Conducted applied neuroscience research on human-machine interaction and brainwave analysis under Prof. Zhi-Hong Mao
• First-author of paper “Internet of Brain: Decoding Human Intention and Coupling EEG Signals with Internet Services”, published by IEEE in the 2016 9th International Conference on Service Science (ICSS), pp. 172-179

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Applied Mathematics In Computer Science, Minor In Economics

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