About
I am a recent graduate of the DSPP program at the Georgetown University. Prior to the
McCourt, I studied sociology and political science in Hong Kong and graduated with first class honor. You
can click HERE to see my resume.
Interests
Substantive: Governance, Political Economy, Development Economics, Public Opinion
Methodological: Causal Inference, Machine Learning
Skills
Programming: R, Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, MySQL
Framework: Flask, Shiny, PySpark, Tensorflow, Keras
Library: Scrapy, Gensim, SpaCy, Sklearn, Bokeh, Plotly, Folium
Certificate: Deep Learning Specialization (Coursera)
Experiences
Current Position
- Data Science Consultant at the World Bank
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Develop the methodology of employing non-survey data sources (Google Trends and aviation data) to assess
Pacific Islands Countries' tourism industry under data-sparse situations.
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Perform time series (SARIMAX, VAR, ARDL, combined models) and econometric (RDD, RDiT) analysis on merged
data, with a 41% improvement in RMSE at combined forecasts.
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Produce data visualizations (bokeh and d3.js) and other data science supports to the
Pacific Observatory.
Past Experiences
- Consultant at International Initiative
for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
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Review literature and identify new robustness checks and approaches relevant to contemporary causal
inference techniques.
Conduct research on how remote sensing techniques can be implemented in impact evaluations.
- Data Science Intern at Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), The World Bank
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Clean, link, and manage various administrative datasets. Perform statistical analysis and data
visualization.
- MDI Scholar at the Massive Data
Institute
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Being a member of the Crawl4All to fix the storage
(docker, MongoDB) and scraping (scrapy) issues and speed up the process. Extract 1
TB+ files, texts, and images from 7000+ charter schools in the United States.
Research Assistant for Dr. Marko Klasnja at the
Walsh School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University
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Scrape (selenium, requests) and parse (pdfminer, pytesseract) information from
financial disclosures by office holders in various countries around the world. (code);
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Clear and Analyze the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) Data from 1983 (~ 20,000+ variables).
- Research Assistant at the Lugar Center
- Research Assistant for Dr.
Yao-tai Li