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Xushanli Yang

Halifax,NS

Summary

Highly motivated and detailed-oriented candidate passionate about using data to improve business performance and customer experience. Skilled at leveraging data to develop actionable solutions to business challenges and utilizing data mining and data visualization to create meaningful insights. Excellent technical aptitude and knowledge of programming languages, data analytics and data visualization.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Course Instructor

Yulu Education
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Teaching courses and give guidances about Math and English to junior high school students at a private education institution.

Online English Tutor

Silan Education
05.2022 - 04.2023
  • Help students in China to prepare for Cambridge Assessment Linguaskill Test by giving classes and tutorials remotely.

Education

Master of Science in Computing and Data Analytics - Computing Science and Data Science

Saint Mary's University
12.2024

Bachelor of Computing Science (B.CS.) - Computing Science

Thompson River University
04.2023

Skills

  • Critical Thinking and Creative Questioning
  • Conflict Resolution and Group Organization
  • Math Skills including Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc
  • Multiple Programming Languages including Python, R, C/C, JAVA, SQL, etc
  • Skilled in using Machine Learning and Deep Learning to perform data analysis
  • Skilled in using Excel, Tableau and Power BI, etc, for data mining and visualization

Research and Projects

  • Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Worked in a group on Data Analytics Competition sponsored by Southwest Property and Saint Mary's Univeristy. Analyzing apartment rent trends in Halifax urban area over the years and predict rent price by various ML models.

  • Feb 2024 - Mar 2024

Worked on a Big Data project, performing data analysis including clustering customers' ages, using random forest regression to predict sales, etc,  on Brazilian E-Commerce, using datasets from Olist. 

  • Sept 2022 - Jan 2023

 Worked in a group on testing ChatGPT-3 model and analyzing its performance between other different large language models. Also built chatbots using GPT-3 API for Fraser Health.

  • Jan 2022 - May 2022

Worked in a directed study about Fuzzy Theory in Math, and its related and potential applications in computer science.

Volunteer Experience

Online Program in Computer Graphics and Imaging

University of California

May 2019 - Jul 2019

Six weeks short project led by Professor Brian Barsky of University of California, Berkeley. It covers 3D modeling, 3D object transformation, ray tracing, etc.


Research Study Assistant

Thompson Rivers University

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

Six months research study of Fuzzy Theory in Math, working with Dr. Fatma Mahmoud. It includes studying the theory and its history and finding out the related application in Artificial Neural Network and Inference engine

Languages

English
Full Professional
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Course Instructor

Yulu Education
05.2023 - 08.2023

Online English Tutor

Silan Education
05.2022 - 04.2023

Master of Science in Computing and Data Analytics - Computing Science and Data Science

Saint Mary's University

Bachelor of Computing Science (B.CS.) - Computing Science

Thompson River University
Xushanli Yang