Xueyin Chen (Sherry)
Master of Engineering Candidate
University of California, Berkeley
RESUME
Summary
Graduate Masters Student in Systems Engineering who has strong passion in big data analysis with solid quantitative skills as well as rich financial experience
Projects
Research on Data Visualization Supervised by Prof. John F Canny
Present
• Using Scala to cluster large-scale data and implementing a website for user interaction with the model
Mobile Data Analysis by Machine Learning
9/2014- 12/2014
• Analyzed and predicted locations of people at certain time moments by Gaussian Mixture Model
• Studied people’s activity and trip behavior in San Francisco by Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model
Database and Web Design for Wetravel.to
9/2014-9/2014
• Implemented a database management system with MySQL and constructed a web-based query platform with PHP to help a startup (Wetravel.to) manage data for web analytics.
• URL to the website: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~xueyinsherry/wetravelto/mainpage.html
Discovering Insights from Small Businesses Financial Data for Intuit Inc.
9/2014-present
• Using analytical tools to help Intuit Inc. explore useful financial information of small businesses
• Acting as the communicator to build communication between the team and the advisors in Intuit Inc..
Genetic Algorithm for Bus Route Design in Hong Kong
9/2013-12/2013
• Used Matlab to optimize bus routes in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong with modified Genetic Algorithm
• Proposed a new method to for the initialization procedure to reduce computational cost
Calibration & Simulation of Hong Kong Transportation Networks
2013-2014
• Processed data from over three thousand record stations with C++ and analyzed traffic distribution
• Derived spatial distribution of vehicle speed from GPS data and simulated 15 transportation networks in Hong Kong
Skills
Python, Spark, Matlab, SQL, Scala, C++, R, HTML, PHP, Unix, PostGIS, ArcGIS, Machine learning, Daatabase management
Languages
English (Fluent)
Mandarin (Native)
Cantonese (Fluent)
Work
experience
XiangCai Securities, Fixed Income & Trading Section, Shanghai
Summer Intern
5/2013-6/2013
• Did market research of newly issued bonds, and reported daily to department managers and traders
• Reviewed working papers of the bond to be issued, checked and corrected relevant document
International project contract management, ICEM Limited, Hong Kong
Summer Analyst
8/2012
• Used regression model to predict interest rates in Ghana and estimated cost for Offshore Services Terminal Project
Education
University of California, Berkeley
2014 - 2015
(GPA: 3.75/4.00)
• Master of Engineering in Systems with emphasis on computational analysis
• Relevant Courses: Scalable Spatial Analysis, Database Management, Behavior Modeling
• Core Leadership Curriculum: Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Finance, Tech Strategy
• Coursera certificate: Machine Learning
The University of Hong Kong
2010 - 2014
(CGPA: 3.79/4.00，First Honour)
• Bachelor of Civil Engineering
• Dean's Honours List, Wong Nai Yin Scholarship, Soong Ch'ing-ling Scholarship, Exchange Scholarship
University of California, Berkeley
(GPA: 3.87/4.00)
• Summer Exchange