At a Glance
- Ph.D., Statistics, 2017, UCLA
- Click here to view my dissertation.
- Dissertation Title: A Data Augmentation Approach to Short Text Classification
- Chair: Ying Nian Wu
- Committee: Arash Amini, Jan de Leeuw, Junghoo (John) Cho
- M.S., Computer Science, UCLA
- Thesis/Project Title: Towards A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Microblog Spam
- Chair: D. Stott Parker
- Committee: Michael G. Dyer, Junghoo (John) Cho
- M.S., Statistics, UCLA
- Psychometrics, item response theory, educational testing/evaluation/assessment
- B.S., Mathematics of Computation, Statistics, UCLA
Relevant Coursework
Statistics
- 200ABC Theoretical Statistics
- 201A Sampling and Experimental Design
- 201B Generalized Linear Model
- 201C Advanced Modeling/Bayesian Modeling
- 202A Statistical Computing (taken as undergraduate)
- Unix, Bash, Perl, Python, SQL, R
- 202B Matrix Optimization
- 202C Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Self-Studied)
- M221 Time Series Analysis
- M222 Spatial Statistics
- M231 Machine Learning (taken as undergraduate)
- 100ABC Probability, Mathematical Statistics and Linear Model
- 120AB Statistical Modeling (now 101ABC)
- 130AB Statistical Computing with Stata and SAS
- M154 Intro to Measurement/Psychometrics
Computer Science
- 217A Internet Architecture and Protocols
- 241A Object-Oriented and Semantic Database Systems
- 246 Web Information Management
- 249 Special Topics: Intro to Data Mining
- 263A Natural Language Processing
- 263B Connectionist Natural Language Processing (Neural Networks)
- 263C Modeling with Animats (Swarm Intelligence and Evolutional Algorithms)
- 269 Machine Learning Theory
- 111 Operating Systems
- 118 Networks (taken as an undergraduate)
- 130 Software Engineering
- 131 Programming Language Theory
- 143 Database Systems
- 144 Web Applications
- 180 Algorithms and Complexity
Mathematics
- 113 Combinatorics
- 115AB Linear Algebra
- 131AB Real Analysis
- 132 Complex Analysis
- 135AB Differential Equations
- 151AB Numerical Analysis
- 157 Scientific Computing (C++)
Other Relevant
- Psychology 142H: Advanced Psychological Statistics