Hi, I'mDylana Wang

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        I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Chemistry,UCR, and expecting the graduation in November 2019. What's more, I am a programmer, with an analytical and mathematical bent. Armed with the growth mindset which coined by psychologist Carol Dweck,I am a high self-monitor with huge curiocity for new technologies.

       On the strength of my academic performance at the graduate level, I have substantially relevant work experience with data and coding spanning over three years.Considerable spadework I have been undertaking have paved me the way for entering the industry.

       I am seeking opportunaties to data science/engineering or machine learing engineering position in industry to work outside my comfort zone.

Education

Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry - UCR

Sept 2015 -Nov,2019 (Expected) ;

Master of Science in Physical Chemistry - UCR

Sept 2015 - July 2017;

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry- University of Science and Technology of China

Sept 2011 - July 2015;

Skills

Technical Skills

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Know-how

  • Data Structure and Algorithm
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Distributed System Design
  • Relational Database (e.g. MySQL)
  • NoSQL Database (e.g. Redis)
  • Machine Learning
  • Data analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Web Development
  • Spark
  • Keras
  • hadoop
  • D3
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • Bootstrap
  • Flask
  • JQuery
  • AWS
  • LaTeX
  • Git

Projects

EmotionalArcMovie

An interactive Movie Search and Recommendation Engine
  • Build an interactive movie recommendation system that supports discovery of unknown movies with desired sentiment arc to go beyond the static ranked list paradigm.
  • Developed a web app as final product,offering registered user movies based on matrix factorizationmethod and unregistered users with contentbased similarities collaborative filtering method.
  • Scraped movie scripts from SpringfieldSpringfiled and Used Lexicon-Based Methods of Sentiment Analysis to analyze scripts of 9000 movies and Applied t-SNE algorithm to reduce dimensionality of each script for visualization.
  • Designed an interactive web page utilizing AJAX technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript);
  • Technologies used:Flask,Scikit-learn,mySQL,HTML,Boostrap,D3,TuriCreate,Pandas,Numpy,jQuery, Ajax

Home Credit Default Risk:

Kaggle Compitition
  • Made use of 2.89 GB data from kaggle which includes a variety of data--including telco and transactional information to predict bank clients' repayment abilities.
  • Conducted feature engineering by applying min, max, mean, sum and var functions to create features and used feature selection by tree-based feature selection,reducing the number of features from 1000 to 400.
  • Implemenend logistic regression, XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM with Stratified KFold methods as base models and evaluated model performance with operating characteristic curve(ROC).
  • Made second-level stackers from base models and submit the one with least Roc of 0.793, Ranking top 19% in the competition.
  • Technologies used: Scikit-learn,Pandas,Numpy,Matplotlib,Seaborn

House Price Prediction:

kaggle Data
  • Developed and implemented Repeat Sale Method to calculate the Real Estate Price Index and Used GARCH model of Time Series to predict the Real Estate Price Index.
  • Preprocessed data set by data cleaning,categorical feature transformation, normalization and feature selection. etc.
  • Used ensemble methods including Random Forest and Gradient Boosting and evaluated model performance via Cross-Validation(K-fold) technique

Certifications

wangyangtot@gmail.com

Portfolio

  • All
  • Graphic
  • Web
  • Video
  • Apps

Interested in working together?

wangyangtot@gmail.com

Fun Tech NEWS

What it was like to work at startups in 2017, according to over 850 founders surveyed by a top VC firm

Posted by Zoë Bernard Dec. 6, 2017 Social

The tech bubble isn't going to burst anytime soon, at least according to the majority of venture-backed startup founders interviewed by the venture-capital firm First Round for its annual State of Startups Survey.

This year, the VC firm surveyed nearly 900 startup founders to provide insight into what the startup landscape is like in 2017. Its findings include predictions on how the industry will change, which positions are most difficult to hire for, and whether it's a good time to start a company.

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The price of bitcoin has doubled in two weeks, now above $16K

Posted by Lucas Matney Dec 07, 2017 Featured News

The cryptocurrency’s gains Thursday morning hit new heights, striking well above $18,000 across widely varying exchanges, coming to rest above $16,000 while the popular Coinbase exchange had been suffering major issues due to “record high traffic.”

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China’s JD partners with accelerator program Plug and Play to reach US startups

Posted by Jon Russell Dec 07, 2017 International

E-commerce giant JD.com, the closest rival to Alibaba in China, is broadening its presence in Silicon Valley after it announced a collaboration with accelerator firm Plug and Play to seek out and work with promising U.S. startups.

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Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising — and they now account for 25% of all ad sales, online or off

Posted by Caroline Cakebread Dec 07, 2017 Business

The world of advertising à la Mad Men is no more. Consumers' eyes are drifting from newspapers and televisions to computers and smartphones, and the world's global advertising dollars are following them. But the overwhelming beneficiaries of this monumental shift are Google and Facebook.

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Get in touch

Address

Riverside, CA, 92507

Contact Me

+1-951-801-1451

Enquiries

wangyangtot@gmail.com