Biography

Hey! I’m Xinyuan and you can also call me Skyla.

Welcome to My Portfolio!

I am friendly, sincere, meticulous, dedicated, have a strong sense of responsibility, learning ability and adaptability, like to talk with others, love life. The most prominent character label is seriousness, with the characteristics of calm and introverted, good at thinking and research. Have good communication and coordination skills, be good at responding, be able to quickly adapt to the new environment, be good at execution and have a team spirit, and can withstand high-intensity work.

Resumé

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Development
  • Information Retrieval
Education
  • MS in Data Science, 2025

    Northeastern University

  • BS in Computing Science, 2022

    University of Alberta

Skills

SQL
Java
Machine Learning
Python
MATLAB
C#
MongoDB
Linux
Git

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Intern Data Analyst (Internship)
Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 Toronto(Canada) · Hybrid

➢ Implemented credit scoring models to evaluate the creditworthiness of loan applicants and predicted loan default possibility based on user demographics with decision tree and random forest, achieving an AUC of ~0.8

➢ Utilized SQL aggregate functions and advanced database querying techniques to extract, manipulate and analyze banking and financial data; visualized the patterns and trends from risk assessment in Excel

➢ Used Tableau Story to tell data narratives on key risk management metrics, such as portfolio diversification

Responsibilities include:

  • Decision Trees
  • Random Forest
  • SQL
  • Modelling
 
 
 
 
 
Data Scientist (Internship)
Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 New York(United States)

➢ Developed a web scraper with Python to extract JSON data; utilized Pandas, Numpy and Matplotlib to perform exploratory data analysis, summarize the data extraction results and clean the stock data for modeling

➢ Built pivot tables and wrote SQL common table expressions to aggregate and analyze stock data efficiently

➢ Perform in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting at different frequencies using linear regression as baseline; evaluated the performance of ARIMA, SVM, and Holt-Winter machine learning models w/ MSE & R-Squared

➢ Built a daily running ETL to integrate new stock data into the time series, clustering & classification models

➢ Coordinated with research and engineering to document machine learning knowledge and use guide

Responsibilities include:

  • Python
  • Modelling
  • Machine Learning
 
 
 
 
 
Majorel  China
Business analyst (Internship)
May 2021 – Aug 2021 Shanghai(China)

➢ Responsible for data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, exploration and analysis for FMCG industry; used SWOT and Porters’ Five Forces to analyze industry & market conditions

➢ Designed A/B testing by defining a clear hypothesis, selecting a representative sample to randomly divide into control and treatment groups; measured the impact of pricing and promotion on sales and customer behavior

➢ Conducted funnel analysis to identify bottlenecks in customer journey and improve the overall conversion rate

➢ Designed a Tableau dashboard with single metric, bar charts, heat maps and scheduled delivery to stakeholders

➢ Diagnosed sales volume metric drop with SQL to analyze root cause and provide data-driven recommendation

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing
  • Modelling
  • SWOT analysis
  • A/B Testing

Courses

This course provides an introduction to reinforcement learning intelligence, which focuses on the study and design of learning agents that interact with a complex, uncertain world to achieve a goal. Topics include multi-armed bandits, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, planning, and function approximation (online supervised learning). The course takes an information-processing approach to the concept of mind and briefly touches on perspectives from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. The course uses a recently created MOOC on Reinforcement Learning.
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