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General Information
Full Name | Jiayi Zhao |
Preferred Name | Viki Zhao |
Languages | English, Chinese |
Education
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2023-now M.S. Business Analytics (MSBA)
University of California, Los Angeles - Courses: Business Fundamentals, Optimization, Prescriptive Models, Customer Analytics, Operations Analytics, Competitive Analytics
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2019-2023 B.S. Mathematics - Computer Sciences | B.S. Cognitive Science spec. Machine Learning and Neural Computation
University of California, San Diego - GPA: 3.82/4.0
- Cousres: Advanced Data Structure (CSE 100), Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSE101), Business Analytics (MGT 153), Machine Learning (COGS 118A&B)
Technical Skills
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Programming Languages
- Python
- R
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Java
- C++
- SQL
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Frameworks & Tools
- Git
- AWS
- LaTeX
- Excel
- MATLAB
- Visual Code Studio
- Tableau
- Twitter developer platform
Professional Experience
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07/2023 - 09/2023 Software Design Engineer Intern
MULTUS MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC - Constructed automation system to scrap and synchronize reservation data from Airbnb with AWS & Airtable, reducing time spent on property management by 90%
- Implemented a script using Selenium to store most recent reservation data to DynamoDB and backup to S3
- Optimized performance of scraping scripts on EC2 using Lambda functions
- Integrated Airtable with AWS through Gateway API to pull latest data from a DynamoDB database
- Constructed automation system to scrap and synchronize reservation data from Airbnb with AWS & Airtable, reducing time spent on property management by 90%
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06/2022 - 09/2023 Undergrad Research Assistant
FLEISCHER RESEARCH LAB @ UC SAN DIEGO - Conducted research in Analysis of Racial Equity in San Diego Criminal Justice System under Dr. Jason Fleischer
- Executed statistical tests with an outcome-based approach to determine racial disparity in charges, convictions and sentencing, revealing racial bias
- Examined relationship between homelessness-related police stops and specific geographic areas with geospatial analysis and Folium API, revealing distribution of stops appears to converge on bus stops and large homeless encampment in San Diego
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09/2021 - 03/2023 Instructional Apprenticeship (IA)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO - I.A. for COGS108 - “Data Science in Practice” (Fall 2021, Winter 2022)
- I.A. for COGS118A - “Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms” (Winter 2023, Spring 2023)
- Held weekly office hour to assist students through the life cycle of executing Data Science projects, coding assignments, and computer science/data science concepts.
- Contributed to developing lesson plans, quizzes, homework assignments.
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06/2021 - 07/2021 Data & Research Intern
HEY SOCIAL GOOD - Conducted research with Python and SpaCy on social impacts of corporations and evaluated for meeting social good requirements
- Analyzed social media of clients with Azure text analytics API and Twitter API to evaluate performance and social impact of clients
- Automated original humanoid actions and improved audit efficiency by 90%
Open Source Projects
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03/2022 - 06/2022 Online Shopping Intention Prediction
- Employed Logistic Regression, KNN, SVM, and Random Forest models to predict online shopper purchase intention from 12K+ observations with 17 shopping behavior patterns
- Random forest with 91% accuracy achieves the best performance for shopper purchase decision prediction among all used models
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09/2021 - 12/2021 Yummy Recipes
- Developed a web application project on healthy recipes for fitness and health enthusiasts
- Designed wireframes, UI/UX, and logo and implemented part of common component features
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09/2021 - 12/2021 Classification of Handwritten Chinese Number Characters
- Constructed supervised and deep learning algorithms to classify handwritten Chinese number characters by Chinese MNIST dataset with 15K+ compressed images using Binary, Multilayer Perceptron, and CNN
- CNN with 89% accuracy achieves the best performance for image classification among all used algorithms
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06/2021 Flashcard
- Developed a self-learning tool with flashcards in Python which was inspired by Quizlet
- Helps people practice and master what they're learning
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01/2021 - 03/2021 Analysis on the Scale of Wildfire Incident in California
- Examined the relationship between the scale of wildfire in California and global warming climate variables and tend to predict the future wildfire scale by these climate variables
- Analyzed the dataset and constructing a regression model for predicting future wildfire scale based on climate variables
- Concluded that there is the significant relationship between relative humidity and wildfire acres burned with a p-value of 0.007 but fail to reject that there's significant relationship between temperature, windspeed, and burning area due to the respective large p-value of 0.95 and 0.293
Honors and Awards
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2022 - Chancellor's Research Scholarship for Social Science
- Excellent Award in Research and Presentation at 2022 Summer Research Conference, UC San Diego Undergraduate Research Hub
- Provost Honors
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Watching TV shows, Music.