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General Information

Full Name Jiayi Zhao
Preferred Name Viki Zhao
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 2023-now
    M.S. Business Analytics (MSBA)
    University of California, Los Angeles
    • Courses: Business Fundamentals, Optimization, Prescriptive Models, Customer Analytics, Operations Analytics, Competitive Analytics
  • 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

  • Programming Languages
    • Python
    • R
    • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
    • Java
    • C++
    • SQL
  • Frameworks & Tools
    • Git
    • AWS
    • LaTeX
    • Excel
    • MATLAB
    • Visual Code Studio
    • Tableau
    • Twitter developer platform

Professional Experience

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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.