Data Science
Data Science Experiences
Le Wagon
Data Science Bootcamp Teaching Assistant
July 2021 - Present
Remote / Shanghai, China / Berlin, Germany
- Taught 16 industry professionals how to train machine learning models at scale using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and deploy projects using Docker containers
- Solved 15% more tickets a day than average peers
German Federal Ministry of Economic Affaris
Data Scientist / Product Owner
June 2021 - Aug 2021
Remote / Berlin, Germany
- Built a web app for regional level unemployment rate forecasting using Scrum, with 4% higher accuracy than benchmark
- Provided policymakers regional insights on allocating €3B Covid funding to 401 counties
On Century Avenue
Chief Editor
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
- Oversaw a team of 7 in the editorial committee and published around 10-15 articles, ranging from news, opinion, and multilingual sections
News Writer
July 2020 - Sep 2020
- Covered news regarding EU leaders reaching consensus on COVID-19 recovery fund and analyzed what seemed to be a negotiation about money is actually closed linked to political values
- Co-wrote a news piece pertaining COVID-19 updates around the world, comparing countries' confirmed and active cases with visualizations annotating the dates in which each government imposed and eased lockdown dates
- Co-wrote an analysis detailing the political future of Lebanon after the Beirut blast, with one plot putting into context the scale of the explosion, and another graph showing how the country's religious distribution today is no longer reflected on its politics
Econ Analyst
July 2020 - Sep 2020
- Co-wrote an analysis regarding the impact of COVID-19 on low-income communities, detailing how the pandemic affected education, informal economies, and supply chains, with world map showing levels of school closures, percentage of informal economies, changes in unemployment rates, remittance, and consumer prices
@coronavirus_country Initiator
March 2020 - Sep 2020
- Featured on the school's student publication, explaining my personal project on covering how COVID-19 has impacted the world, one country a day.
Wave Learning Festival
Data Team Lead
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
- Worked with regional outreach leads to create data visualizations for different areas that inform marketing decisions into more under-privileged areas by web scraping public data and automating emailing to increase mass marketing efficiency
- Delegated tasks to the 9 members of the data team and provide counsel and technical support on individual projects
- Oversaw the assessment of all data requests in order to ensure quality and accuracy of the statistics and visaulizations
- Featured on WaveLF's blog to explain the responsibilities and achivements of the data team.
Instructor of "Time is Money" course
July 2020 - Aug 2020
- Taught 150+ students time management by connecting important concepts from personal finance, psychology, and data science
- Received a 4.4/5 overall course rating, with 5/5 rating that they learned something from the course and 4.8/5 that the teacher is knowledgeable of the course subject
Data Volunteer for Automating Logistics
June 2020 - Aug 2020
- Created algorithms to automate internal processes such as determining acceptances and waitlists, and refined the course enrollment system by adding an age restriction filter to separate elementary schoolers from college students, using MATLAB
- Performed data analysis on registrations enrollments to create summaries on how many students got in how many of their desired courses, using Python
- Automated the process of visualizing age distribution in each class for teachers to better understand their students, using Python
- Optimized courses scheduling to find the best time slot for 100+ courses based on teachers' availability and least conflicts and automatically adding the optimized results to Google Calendar, using Python mlrose and GoogleAPI
Data Volunteer for Marketing & Expansion
June 2020 - Aug 2020
- Performed data analysis on past registrations to create summaries on retention between sessions, using Python
- Visualized geographic representation of students registrations in the U.S. and in the world, using Python bokeh and R shiny
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My journey from being a Project Manager in consulting groups to a Product Manager at a unicorn tech startup.
Product Manager
Product Manager at Grace Accelerator
Grace Accelerator is an initiative in Berlin, Germany that promotes female entrepreneurship.
I am currently a Product Manager at Grace, leading the product development of the MasterMind program on Grace Digital from conception to launch.
Product Management Intern at OrCam Technologies
OrCam Technologies is a unicorn startup based in Jerusalem, Israel that empowers the lives of visually impaired people with cutting-edge artificial vision technology.
Products
Teams
Media Clippings
Views of Live Broadcast
Views of Video Campaign
OrCam MyEye 2.0
Launched on July 24, 2019, at the Assistive Technology Expo Taipei.
- 2 Products: OrCam MyEye & OrCam MyReader.
- 7 Teams: R&D, QA, Web Dev, SEO Ad, PR, Media, Design.
- 233 Media Clippings: including 7 TV broadcasts, 7 Radio, 4 print newspapers, and 205 online appearances.
- 6.7k Live Views: Senator Prof. Chen from Taiwanese Congress broadcasted live on Facebook advocating for government funding for OrCam, which received 6.7k+ views and hundreds of reactions.
- 222K+ Campaign Views: the campaign video I starred in and co-directed gained over 222K views and hundreds of shares on YouTube.
Product Managing Experience
Below details my experience working with Business Development director as well as different teams before the product launch.
Product Management Intern
June 2019 - Aug 2019
#R&D
Research & Development team
- Brainstormed with R&D team on improving Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in both traditional (used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified characters (used in Mainland China)
- Discussed with R&D team on alternative ways of Chinese TTS (Text-to-Speech) conversions
#QA
Quality Assurance team
- Created detailed test cases for TTS and reviewed technical design specifications
- Identified and documented bugs while testing TTS for children's book and reported back to QA team
#Web Dev
Web Development team
- Translated all texts on the official website into traditional and simplified Chinese
- Researched in methods for smoother conversion between traditional and simplified characters on the Chinese website
#SEO Ad
SEO Advertising
- Compiled a thorough list of possible keywords with SEO team
- Discussed ways of tracking cookies to target advertising across social media platforms
#Biz
Asia Director of Business Development
- Collated a comprehensive Taiwanese distributors lists, including such as but not limited to retail stores, insurance companies, and senior cares
- Wrote a detailed report on tetsing a similar product designed by an industry competitor
#PR
Public Relations
- Pitched to Peking University MBA Executives delegation with Director of PR
- Represented at the business meeting with Parliament Members of Taiwanese Legislative Yuan
- Discussed possibilities of celebrity endoresements and joined meeting calls with Taiwanes PR team
- Wrote multiple press releases in both English and Chinese for the Taiwanese newspaper and social media platforms
#Media
Creative Digital Media
- Modelled for Taiwanese advertisements, including voiceovers, photoshoots and video campaigns
- Wrote the script and cut the whole video campaign with Creative Marketing Director
#Design
Graphic Design
- Co-designed brochures, presentations, and exhibition booth with Graphic Design team
- Translated brochures and presentations from English to Chinese simplified and traditional characters
Project Manager
Consulting Experiences
TAMID Group
Vice-President and Director of Education
May 2019 - May 2020
- Oversaw weekly sessions on teaching members about investing, consulting, entrepreneurship, and networking
- Discussed with student leaders from universities across the U.S, Canada, and Israel at TAMIDcon '19 "Leading with Excellence" conference on ways to create engaging educational materials for students and to work on hands-on projects while learning
- Secured 7 fully-funded summer fellowship opportunities for students to intern at Israeli companies and expand their knowledge on Israeli startup ecosystem
Project Manager
Jan 2019 - May 2019
- Represented to compete with 50+ U.S. colleges for a consulting project on how Golan Heights Winery can effectively enter the Chinese market
Business Consultant
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
- Consulted for GDPR Edge (now Truyo) to understand how Chinese eCommerce companies can comply with the GDPR law
Le Wagon & 31 Ten
Business Consultant
Oct 2018 - May 2019
- Gathered data to evaluate the market potential of Chinese mobile game markets
- Co-wrote a whitepaper detailing the business and technical building of Chinese mobile games markets and its application in WeChat mini-programs
Impact Consulting Group
Project Manager
Sep 2018 - May 2019
- Consulted for Buy42 to provide research guidelines and expand their online market to Chinese local universities
- Collaborated with upperclassmen and alumni to hold seminar sessions and act as mentors in guiding students to work on consulting projects
Sirikos Advisory
Business Consultant
Jan 2019 - March 2019
- Consulted for projects across industries including energy, real estate, M&A in countries such as but not limited to China, U.A.E., and the U.S.
- Helped plan and design pitching processes and slide decks, and made professional recommendations for business improvements
- Performed research and analysis in support of business operations and assisted estimate costs and benefits of multiple actions
Block Aero
Product and Business Development Intern
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
- Trained datasets with neural networks to digitize aircraft records and reported tasks to Chief Technical Officer
- Planned projects and built a library of content for marketing campaigns and competitors research for VP Strategy
Research
From supporting professor's ongoing research papers and publications,
to working with interdisplenary teams and undertaking independent research.
Research Experiences
NYU Vertically Integrated Projects:
Digital Humanities Lab - History Beyond
led by Professor Heather Ruth Lee
Fall Research Assistant
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
- Built a name-nationality classification model that improved prediction accuracy by 30%
- Geocoded 1,034,722 restaurants records between 1870 and 1933 with 90% accuracy using a self-built model
- Visualized restaurants with ethnic clusters to understand immigrant stories
- More of the project can be found in this collaborative paper
Summer Research Assistant
in Data Augmentation & Animation Group
June 2020 - Aug 2020
- Performed data cleaning for business directories in Manhattan during early 1800s to early 1900s using gender and nationality API and cross-checked with datasets scraped from IPUMS USA and Ancestry.com, using Python
- Mapped restaurant data of 9 ethnic groups (Chinese, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, Russian, Spanish) in three time periods (1898 ,1913, 2020) using Python and compared racial distribution patterns of New York using R tidycensus
- Featured on the school's gazette to discuss my contribution to the project
Biases and Fairness in Online Interactions led by Professor Bruno Abrahao
Research Assistant
Dec 2020 - Present
- Applying evolutionary game theory on social networks where there are imbalances in mutual ratings driven by social demographics
- Using imperfect heirarchical multi-level modeling to reduce the interdependence between rating interactions
Irrational Artificial Intelligence led by Professor Grace Haaf
Research Assistant
Sep 2020 - Present
- Using regression models to find unusual behavior patterns in poker bots decisions to infer irrationality in artificially intelligent agent
International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) led by Professor David Yu
Research Assistant
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
- Researched for global and regional leasing and securitization in aircraft markets
- Contributed to editorial discussions on aircraft leasing financial modelling educational presentations for college masters program
Personal Projects
Professor Network Graph
Visualized CS professors in the global NYU network and created individual profiles based on their number of publications, citations, and diversity of coauthorship
Book Recommender System
Tested the role of reading tags and book covers in book recommender system using TF-iDF and CNN machine learning models and improved prediction by 92%
Predicting Beijing House Price
Predicted the house price in Beijing with regression models
Recommendations
Good things people have said about me.
Cinny interned at Block Aero’s Shanghai office from October 2018 to December 2018.
During this three month period she assisted with preparing training data sets
for our machine learning models, conducted research and analysis on our competitors,
and assisted with business development efforts.
I found Cinny to be one of the most diligent interns that our startup has hired to date.
She was punctual, highly organized and very enthusiastic.
She showed a keen eye for detail and I was impressed with the time and effort she was willing to
invest to ensure that documents were free from errors, correctly formatted and aesthetically pleasing.
Dominic Jackson
VP Strategy, Block Aero
Cinny did a terrific job in her position and was an asset to our organization during her tenure with the office. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure that all projects are completed in a timely manner. Because of her effectiveness, I even gave her additional responsibilities, including developing market research and preparation for our entry into the Taiwanese market. Cinny went above and beyond in that assignment, as she does in all tasks. Cinny was always willing to offer her assistance and had an excellent communication internally and externally with our stakeholders and other professional organizations. This would be valuable for any company, as Cinny is an intern that can effectively communicate with people across departments.
Liron Rosenbaoum
Asia Director of Business Development,
OrCam Technologies
Cinny was our choice to be Data Team Lead when we transitioned to the fall because of her impressive skills and because she has an amazing personality. She is always taking things head on, really taking ownership of all her projects and eager to help on more. Her energy and the happiness she brings made the data team really exciting!
Joshua Chen
Director of Marketing, Wave Learning Festival
Cinny is the absolute best -- her energy, excitement, and passion for Wave really shone throught. She always brightened up my days with her kind words. Her drive, ability, and attention to detail was absolutely crazy. She was promoted as Data Lead for the fall because she showed that she is an amazing leader.
Amy Shen
Director of Logistics, Wave Learning Festival
Cinny works hard and has good communication within the team. She responses to message very quickly, and is always on top of work.
Cinny is an absolute pleasure to work with, she is so kind and positive. I love how much empathy she leads the team with! She takes initiative, she knows what people are doing, and she is good at spliting up work to everyone.
Cinny is always really positive. She makes sure everything gets done, as well as makes sure to celebrate achievements with the team.
Anonymous Community Feedback
Data Team, Wave Learning Festival
Cinny has the ability to work with literally everyone. At OCA, she bridges the gap between Chinese and international students, facilitate discussions and encourage collaborations between both parties. In only two months joining, Cinny not only wrote an amazing article for the News Committee which she is in, she also published two articles in collaboration with our international students, and collaborated with our Chinese student in the Economics Committee on another article. On top of that, she also supported the development of the website for OCA. Because of her passion and all the work she did for OCA, we decided to promote her as Chief Editor and we can't wait to see more that she can bring to OCA.
Gordon Fan
Former President, On Century Avenue
Cinny managed to create massive impact during the few sessions she joined as Teaching Assistant at Le Wagon. She helped students through learning complex topics like deployment of data applications using Google Cloud suite, Heroku and general principles of MLOps. She always showed a welcoming and passionate approach to helping students, was patient and thorough with her explanations.
Pavel Liser
Engineering Manager, Le Wagon Shanghai
Cinny was only a TA for two days, but she impressed us. 10/10
Cinny was very friendly and helpful when solving problems. Maybe a lack of familiarity with the course work presented some challenges in helping us but she always seemed to be giving her most. 10/10
Cinny was very helpful and eager to help, had great listening skills and clear communication despite most of my interactions being from Zoom because I was joining remotely. 9/10
Anonymous Community Feedback
Data Science BootCamp Students, Le Wagon Shanghai
Cinny is, my hands down, most inspirational, driven, tech savvy and entrepreneurial intern as of now. She has build a data-driven „matching algorithm“ for Grace Digital in no time with user research, content design and UX/UI prototyping in a very self-directed working manner. She is curious and displays and infectious go-getter attitude, while bringing empathy, impeccable relationship and communication skills and great foresight. Cinny will be an amazing addition to any team.