Vivian Zhang's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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I am a data scientist who has many years of practical experience in data technologies and the analytics industry, after developing my expertise in statistical methodologies and software and in a variety of programming languages. I am the founder of NYC Data Science Academy. Prior to my current entrepreneurial career, I worked as a Statistician and Scientific Programmer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Center of Statistics at Brown University. I received her MS degrees in Applied Mathematics and in Computer Science from Stony Brook Univ. and San Jose State University, respectively, and also took additional continuing education courses in advanced statistics from Stanford and Brown Univ.Co-Founder/CTO @ Analytics | Academy | Big Data Products We are data science and big data services provider. We provide consulting services specialized in data mining modeling and visualization using the technologies of R, Python, Hadoop, D3.js and etc.We provide products to support the data analysis process end-to-end, across industries and geographies.We collaborated to make and sell R/Hadoop/Spark products and partner with other leading firms in this domain. We provide R built-in for Hadoop and parallelize R algorithms. Our partners include Transwarp, Rstudio, Alteryx, DataCamp, Revolution Analytics, etc. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Founder @ Training brand under SupStat Inc. We challenge traditional data analysis thinking, train and inspire the next generation of data scientists and data visualization professionals. We don’t just teach our courses here at Data Academy, we live them in our consulting business. Our courses are designed and taught in house and under the mentorship from industry leaders and experts. We offer 12 week full-time bootcamp, corporate training, and weekend classes on the topics of R/Python beginner(data analytics focus), R/Python Intermediate (machine learning focus), Hadoop Beginner, Intermediate(Real world cases focus), etc. It attracts a lot of companies to hire our graduates directly from us: http://nycdatascience.com/bootcamp/ 5 Weekend classes are consisted of 20 to 35 hours of classroom guidance with a three week-long showcase project and presentation night. Email [email protected] to get enrolled or engaged as students or hiring partners. http://nycdatascience.com/courses We have provided technical training for corporations and individuals including Google, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, AIG, Citibank, PWC, Roche, Locus Analytics, MSKCC, Rosetta, Barclay Bank,Citigroup, Gilt Group, Deutsche Bank, Xaxis(WPP), AppNexus, Viacom, NBA, HBO,Federal Reserve Bank, BlackRock, Real Capital Analytics, NBC universal, FINRA, Aetna etc. All the corporate trainings are highly customized based on clients' need. Email [email protected] for case study. From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaAdjunct Professor @ I develop Data Science certificate program and graduate level degree program and offer the courses with other professors at SBU. This program offers classes such as Big Data Concepts and applications, Data Mining techniques and its applications, Machine learning and real world application, Policy research in Web Mining (Optional), Capstone Project in Big Data and etc. All the certificate credits could be transferred into masters degree program. It is ideal for corporate tuition reimbursement program if it requires college credits. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaFounder @ I teach and host free data science and big data related workshops to the NYC data and technology community two/three times per week. The group gathers 2400+ members in 18months. This group is sponsored by more than 25 leading firms, which include SupStat, ThoughtWorks, McKinsey & Co, Betterment, Engima, SumAll Foundation, StreetEasy, SquareSpace, Annalect Group, Lab 49, PlaceIQ, Yodle, etc. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaMember of Board Now (Co-founder in the past) @ The firm is focusing on developing gaming and social media mobile apps for TV content and entertainment industry. Clients include "China Got Talent" and "China Idol" programs for Dragon TV channel, among others. The technologies include unique aspects of image detection, social advertisement, personalized content and swag distribution. From April 2010 to May 2015 (5 years 2 months) Senior Financial Application Analyst @ I researched, analyzed and deployed advanced statistical and visualization solutions for new and existing financial and outcomes related applications. Examples include: readmission prediction in cancer specialty hospitals, affordable care research, interdisciplinary collaboration within and out of the hospital, hospital's reimbursement and financial analysis from third party payers, outcomes comparisons of national, state and internal clinical and financial data. From February 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 5 months) Scientific Programmer & Biostatistician @ I developed R packages of numerical computing routines for the implementation and distribution of newly developed statistical methods for analysis of data arising from missing data, mediation analysis and causal inference. My research was published with scholars at Brown University and Kenya HIV Hospital, aiming to reduce the cost of basic HIV viral load test. From February 2010 to February 2012 (2 years 1 month) Providence, Rhode Island AreaResearch Assistant @ I developed algorithms to predict the threshold values for various services in ‘Medicaid’ Health Insurance scheme, improved in-network drug safety of usage by following medical publication's results and offered statistical consulting service for other departments in the hospital. From September 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 5 months) Business Intelligence Developer @ I data mined the customs bills of landing in USA, offered customized reports about specific product’s suppliers, buyers, freight, maritime info on real time basis,hosted Google Adsense and Adwords campaign for this commercial data search engine. From December 2007 to May 2008 (6 months) Software Engineer @ I configured SSL certificate and server platform for Japan mobile device certificate development. From August 2007 to October 2007 (3 months) Master, Applied Math and Statistics @ State University of New York at Stony Brook From 2008 to 2009 Master, Computer Science @ San Jose State University From 2006 to 2008 Non-degree program, Statistics and Computer Science @ Stanford University From 2008 to 2013 Special Student Program, Statistics @ Brown University From 2010 to 2012 Vivian Zhang is skilled in: R, Data Mining, Data Analysis, Python, SAS, Machine Learning, Statistics, Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Research, Data Visualization, Programming, Algorithms, SQL