Statistical Consultant
Center for Social Science Computation and Research, University of Washington
09/2022 – Now · Seattle, United States
Supervisor: Jerald Herting, PhD
- Instructed workshops on introductory R for faculty and students
- Provided statistical and computation consulting services 80 hours per month to improve the research of faculty and students
Research Assistant
College of Education, University of Washington
09/2022 – 06/2023 · Seattle, United States
Project: HOPE: Achieving home discharge for institutionally bound patients with PROMs, AI, and the HER
PI: Andrea Cheville, MD & Chun Wang, PhD. Funded by National Institute of Health
- Cleaned a big clinic dataset with over 10 million records and conducted descriptive statistics
- Handled the missingness and sampling weights in the dataset with multiple advanced statistical methods
- Selected the most important variables on patients’ discharge positions by regularization methods
Psychometrician (Internship)
ByteDance Co., Ltd.
05/2022 – 07/2022 · Beijing, China
- Conducted descriptive statistics, data visualization, and results interpretation
- Identified the items in which the difficulty parameters were abnormally labeled through quantitative analysis
- Simulated item recommendation rules and adjusted the recommendation rules based on the simulation results
Teaching Assistant (Awarded as Excellent T.A.)
Beijing Normal University
09/2020 – 01/2021 · Beijing, China
Course: Adaptive Testing and Diagnostic Adaptive Assessment
- Undertook the task of introducing R
- Tutored 18 graduate students in remedial courses on the fundamentals of statistics.
- Corrected homework assignments weekly
Research Assistant
National Assessment Center for Education Quality
06/2019 – 08/2019 · Beijing, China
Project: Vertical linking based on large-scale assessment projects in China
PI: Ping Chen, PhD. Funded by Chinese Testing International Co., Ltd.
- Participated in the research on test equating design and methods.
- Helped with programming for Monte Carlo simulation programs to compare different equating methods
- Assisted in creating research presentation posters and PowerPoint slides