Tianning Li

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Tianning Li

Los Angeles, USA

Hello! I’m Tianning Li, currently a graduate student in the University of Southern California. I have been studying and applying data skills for about five years.

I have graduated from the University of Washington with dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematical sciences (Data Science and Statistics) with minor in Math. My area of interest includes data science and visualization, deep learning and machine learning, web programming, software engineering, mathematical modeling and algorithm tading for stocks.

Expertise

Machine Learning / Data Science

Apply Convolutional Neural Network for image classification problem and real world application.

Perform sentiment analysis and topic modeling on dialogue date.

Using various data analysis skills and data visualization tool for data analysis tasks.

Web Development

Develop front-end websites and Google Chrome Extensions using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, React.js.

Develop back-end websites using PHP.

Develop back-end API using Python flasks.

Develop data visualization platform using Python Dash or D3.js

Experience using AWS web services (S3, EC2, RDS)

Software Development

Build Python packages scrap information for financial analysis.

Build linear programming models for scheduling problems.

Building Apps for daily use.

Financial Analysis

Perform fundamental and technical analysis on public companies.

Using different strategies to exists stock and option tradings.

Perform sentiment analysis on stock news.

Database Management

Experience using SQL, MySQL, HQL to manage database.

Able to handle both relational and non-relational data.

Electric Engineering

Experience building Internet of Thing (IoT) product for industry.

Using Matlab to do various image processing tasks.

Experience using FPGA, Tiva-C LaunchPad and Arduino as microcontrollers for embedded computing systems.

Experience

Research Assistant

05/2020 - Present | Computational Imaging of Brain Organization Research Group (CIBORG) Laboratory | Los Angeles, USA

Label region of interest of Brain MRI images.
Data Analysis on the Brain Image.

Research Assistant

12/2017 - 01/2019 | Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL) | Seattle, USA

Work on ECoS project-a tool (Microsoft Word Add-in) for more efficient document review and content edition.
Create user friendly buttons for users to choose which types of error the author has made and create a report card for summary using Microsoft Visual Studio and C#.
Design the layout of the buttons and menus for better looking of the Add-in and create customization feature for users to create their own buttons.
Focus on product expansion and securing technology IP and proactively seek cooperation with Microsoft.

Data Scientist Intern at AI Research and Development Department

07/2018 - 09/2018 | Ctrip Technology | Shanghai, China

Managed Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with size over 100TB per table.
Data cleaning in python to filter out words, numbers, and emoji that can not be topics of dialogue.
Applied K-means, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and tf-idf to do cluster analysis of large scale of dialogue data.
Learn about TensorFlow to train a model for machine learning and research on TensorFlow serving to serve model.

Consulting Intern

07/2017 - 09/2017 | Deloitte Consulting | Shanghai, China

Analyzed human capital of private or public limited companies (including companies listed in NASDAQ, NYSE, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges or Hong Kong Stock Exchange).
Analyzed share-based or stock-based compensation from the prospectuses and annual reports and registration statements.
Compare the incentive plans of different companies which are in the similar sector.
Statistical analyze human costs, profit, revenue and other financial data of the companies.
Figuring out how the share of principal stockholders change over time from prospectuses, annual reports, and proxy statements.
Create PPT for presenting to customers by showing the current market trend, governmental law, other companies, and analysis.
Research on the control mode of the second headquarters of companies like Alibaba, China Bank and so on.

Teaching Assistant

06/2016 - 09/2016 | Onebest Education | Shanghai, China

Assist teaching SAT, SSAT, ACT, TOEFL.
Q&A on AP Calculus, Physics, Chemistry.
Making study plans for students.
Keeping touch students of distant learning.

Education

Master of Science

08/2019 - 05/2020 | Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

Area: Data Science and Engineering

Bachelor of Science

09/2015 - 07/2019 | Electrical Engineering

University of Washington

Area: Embedded Computing System, Imaging Processing, Internet of Things(IoT)

Bachelor of Science

09/2015 - 07/2019 | Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (Data Science and Statistics) with minor in Mathematics

University of Washington

Area: Data Science and Visualization, Database Management, Web Programming, Mathematical Modeling

Organizations

Vice Director

09/2020 - Present

USC Chinese Graduate Student Association (CGSA)

Lead the front-end web development team.

Technical Officer

09/2019 - 09/2020

USC Chinese Graduate Student Association (CGSA)

Front-end web developer using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React.js.
Develop the new official CGSA website.
Implement features include login, register and fetching data using HTTP methods.
Cooperate with the back-end team to develop CGSA system.

Vice President & Technology and Academic Director

01/2017 - 08/2019

UW First Avenue Academic Group

Build front-end, back-end, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for the club using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL.
Update and maintain the website and database.
Technical support for events.
Schedule midterm and final review sessions for CSE, Math, Phys, Stat intro courses, preview review sessions.
Check availability of teaching courses at other universities or colleges.
Managing club events: Who Is Still Standing.