Wendy Yip, PhD

Address: 2110 Fourth St Santa Monica, CA 90405 Email: wendyyip@gmail.com Employment status: US Citizen

SUMMARY Data-driven professional with data science and business consulting experience; quantitative and analytical with experience delivering actionable insights from data to senior managers and clients EXPERIENCE 01/16-03/16 Data Incubator Scholar San Francisco, CA

Selective eight-week full time data science program (4% acceptance rate out of ~1900 applicants) for advanced degree holders with real world data projects that include: • Predicted Yelp star ratings for businesses using Yelp public dataset (~325 MB of data) with Machine

Learning algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) • Analyzed webpage linkage and performed content analysis of English Wikipedia pages (~10 GB of XML

data) using Hadoop and MapReduce • Analyzed 9 GB of StackOverFlow Website XML data to perform user behavior analysis with Scala and Spark • Used Machine Learning algorithms to build models to predict loan default using Lending Club dataset

03/15-present Independent Management Consultant Los Angeles, CA

• Performed customer segmentation and customer service usage analysis to predict optimal level of customer service support for utilities client; queried customer database in SQL

• Led the market sizing and financial analysis on a new gaming accessory product for a start-up; prepared presentation for a potential partner in joint venture

09/15-11/15 Data Science volunteer at NewMet Los Angeles, CA

• Helped the non-profit Earth Advocacy Project identify target cities in California for marketing campaign • Used regression, clustering and random forests models implemented in Python and Scikit learn library for

analysis 01/14-02/15 Bogaert Consulting Los Angeles, CA

Management consultant at consulting firm founded by a former Booz & Co principal with examples of projects that include: • Performed statistical analysis of pricing policy on a line of industrial goods and analyzed the impact on win

rate for salesforce • Analyzed the profitability drivers for a $3B service-based division in a Fortune 500 company

10/12-11/13 Booz & Company Chicago, IL Associate (Post-MBA level hire)

Management consultant with examples of projects that include: • Performed due diligence on an an automotive supplier as an acquisition target for a private equity • Determined $40M in cost synergies in a merger and acquisition deal for a Fortune 500 company

06/10-09/10 Enova Financial-Consumer Lending Company Chicago, IL Business Analytics Intern

• Optimized customer acquisition process and increased loan profitability by developing a process that reduced the number of credit report requests made to credit bureaus, resulting in an annual savings of $300,000

• Used SQL to pull customer loan information for data analysis TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Big Data Tools: Python, Matlab, SQL, Hive, C, HTML, Scala, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, MPI Libraries: Scikit Learn, NumPy, Pandas, Flask, Matplotlib, Seaborn Tools: Unix, Git, Heroku, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office

EDUCATION Summer 2015 General Assembly Los Angeles, CA

Certificate in Data Science-11-week part-time course focused on machine learning, data mining and statistics 2006-2012 Northwestern University Evanston, IL

PhD in Electrical Engineering with a research focus on computational electromagnetics • Performed numerical simulation in Matlab and C to model light reflection from healthy vs. cancerous tissues

with the goal of improving optical cancer diagnostic tools • Used MPI for parallel processing of large scale numerical simulations run in Northwestern’s High

Performance Computing Cluster • Recipient of Walter Murphy Fellowship ~$60,000 to cover one year of tuition and stipend

2003-2005 Oxford University Oxford, UK

Master of Science in Math Modeling and Scientific Computing

1999-2003 Columbia University New York, NY Bachelors of Science in Material Science and Engineering / Minor in Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors Society)