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EDUCATION
- Ontario Graduate Certificate in Marketing Research and Analytics, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada, May 2024 (expected)
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, United States, November 2015
- M.A. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, United States, November 2010
- B.A. with Honorary M.A. in Economics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2006
- First Class with honours, Lanfine Bursary (2004, 2005)
EXPERIENCE
- Recent Projects
- Machine learning
- Unveiling Customer Behavior through Marketing Basket Analysis with Apriori Algorithm – My Study Notes (1/3)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unveiling-customer-behavior-through-marketing-basket-analysis-ju-szgqc
- Unveiling Customer Behavior through Marketing Basket Analysis with Apriori Algorithm – My Study Notes (1/3)
- AI large language model applications:
- Unlocking Knowledge: AI-Powered Conversations with Your Private Documents
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking-knowledge-ai-powered-conversations-your-private-shijun-ju-snofe - Google Gemini vs. GPT-4 Vision: A Test of their ability to analyze bar charts
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-gemini-vs-gpt-4-vision-simple-test-ability-analyze-shijun-ju-qe3be
- Unlocking Knowledge: AI-Powered Conversations with Your Private Documents
- Python apps:
- Optimizing Your Class Schedule: A Customized and Automatic Generator
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/optimizing-your-class-schedule-customized-automatic-generator-ju-0eysc
- Optimizing Your Class Schedule: A Customized and Automatic Generator
- Machine learning
- Course Designer/Programmer for Educational Technology Projects
- 2023 – Current: Developed online learning platforms 3auk.com, LiuXueZiKao.com – WordPress
- 2021 – 2023: Created educational websites LiuXueWangXiao.com – WordPress
- Comprehensive online study platform: study notes, multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks questions, flashcards; covered courses: A level Economics, Accounting, Math
- 2021 Summer Virtual Reality (VR) Classroom – Unity(C#)
- Interactive class notes, graphs, videos, exam question analysis (colored keywords, answers); Whiteboard
- 2019-2021 Educational apps: Draggable Essay Mindmap, Drag and Drop Essay Writer, Interactive Exam Question Visualization – Javascript (Vanilla, React.js, D3.js)
- Enable users to quickly build a simple mindmap of an essay’s main points
- Enable users to quickly construct a full response for an essay
- Visualize past exam questions by categorizing questions by topic, mark, level of difficulty and year
- 2020-2021 Educational WeChat MiniApp – Javascript
- Study notes – users can create personal notes, hide and show answers button
- Multiple choice questions – Administrator assigned homework questions, questions by topic, automatically collecting user wrong question, unlimited redo exercise of personal wrong questions
fill-in-the-blanks - Search essay questions by keyword
- Covered courses: A level Economics, Physics, Math, Further Math
- 2018 Otree Study/Exam System – Otree (Python)
- A modification of the oTree: behavioral research platform – best suited for live session of exams, class exercises
- Functions include: multiple choice questions, test – with text highlight function, drawing board, embed study videos, study notes
- 2015-2017 Teaching Graphs – R, Latex
- A variety of teaching graphs in Economics, Physics, Math to help students visualizing abstract concepts
- 2019 Web Scraping: Educational Info Collection – Python
- Used Python library Scrapy to collect data on UK university majors, university news and university rankings
- Teacher/Tutor
- Data Science
- 2021 Fall University College London (UCL): Undergraduate MSIN0010 Data Analytics I – Python
- 2021 Spring Columbia University: Master’s degree Earth and Environmental Engineering Data Analysis with R
- 2020 Winter Imperial College London: Undergraduate EART40003 Programming for Geoscientists – Python
- 2018 Spring Toronto University: Undergraduate CSC 121: Computer Science for Statistics – R
- Graduate level Economics: 2020 Winter John Hopkins University Financial Economics
- Some of the course contents: portfolio theory; the capital asset pricing model and efficient markets; options I; options II; forwards, futures and corporate risk management; capital structure I; capital structure II
- Undergraduate Accounting: 2020 Spring York University, UK MAN00001H Advanced Financial Reporting
- UK A level
- Economics: AS, A2; Math: AS, A2; Further Math: AS, A2; Physics: AS, A2; Accounting: AS
- IELTS Speaking, Writing
- Data Science
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
- Passed all three levels of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams
COMPUTING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Programming: Python(intermediate), R (intermediate), Javascript (intermediate), WordPress (proficient), Apache Sparks (beginner), Unity (beginner), LaTeX (proficient)
- Language skills: English (fluent), Mandarin Chinese (native)
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