Resume - Xiaoyu Lu

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Summary of skills

Programming — Python, R, MATLAB
SQL — MySQL, MS-SQL Server, Postgres SQL
Machine Learning — scikit-learn, pyspark, Keras, Tensorflow
Visualization — matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot2, plotly, Tableau
Statistics — model selection, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals
Others — LaTeX, ArcGIS

Experience

Data Analyst, Web.com
Assisted in building XGBoost model to predict likelihood of customer acquisition and retention
Data ETL using MS-SQL stored procedures

Data Scientist, All China Marketing Research
Automated anomaly detection of online customer’s review data
Regression models for prediction of rent prices

Education

PhD, Geographical Information Sciences with Minor in Computational Sciences
University of Tennessee Knoxville — 2018

Training

High Performance Computing Workshops: Big Data
National Institute of Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee

Projects

Naive Bayes classification of news articles
Built a Naïve Bayes classifier and categorized news articles based on their topics
Improved the processing speed by ~ 20 - 30 times via implementation in Spark

Recommendation system for last.fm
Built a collaborative filtering model based on user data on last.fm for predicting possible favorite artists over 24 million user ratings cleaned, transformed, and processed in Spark

Identify fishing hotspots using geo-tagged twitter data
Collected and classified over 5000 geo-tagged tweets based on location information (spatial analysis) and textual (TF-IDF) information using ensemble of neural network, random forest, and SVM and obtained F1-score of 0.85

Aerial image classification using deep learning
Trained a 3-layer CNN in Keras and Tensorflow using 324000 DeepSat aerial photographs, and the final model has an accuracy of 99.1%

Awards

Thomas Fellowship, the University of Tennessee, 2016 – 2017. $10,000.
Chancellor’s Fellowship, the University of Tennessee, 2014 – 2018. $10,000/yr. for 4 years.
Robert Long Outstanding Graduate Student Award, the University of Tennessee, 2017–2018. $500.
Bruce Ralston Geospatial Award, the University of Tennessee, 2017. $200