About & Booking
Resume
1 (310) 560-2960 ∙ wiya8806@colorado.edu
Experiences
- Eagle Scout
- HICSS Conference on System Sciences
- Delta Sigma Phi Executive Board
- Commercial Event Photographer
- Youth & Government Executive Board
Skills
- Python, C++, R
- Pytorch, Selenium, NLTK
- Expertise in local and cloud-based LLMs.
- Excel, SQL, Tableau, Google Cloud
- Adobe Creative Suite
Employment
Senior Research Assistant to Professor Kai Larsen at CU Boulder (June 2024 - Current)
- Overseeing seven research assistants, delivering Python-focused direction and broad guidance.
- Developed instructional flowcharts to teach the web scraping process with parallelism, enabling the team to collect over 2 million survey questions for cutting-edge research in Psychometrics.
Research Assistant to Professor Kai Larsen at CU Boulder (June 2022 - June 2024)
- Collaborated on developing NLP/ML-powered ontology software.
- Developed and implemented sentence modeling algorithms using Python, OpenAI API, and Graphviz.
- Used Numpy/matplotlib to visualize openAI API embeddings to understand linguistic patterns
Projects
Built Auto-Regression Image Model
- Collected and processed a dataset of over 100,000 images for analysis
- Trained and fine-tuned a machine learning model using cloud infrastructure.
Applicable Coursework
STAT 3400 (Applied Regression) (R) Boulder, Colorado
- Used methods, theory, and applications of linear statistical models, covering topics like residual diagnostics, transformations, and various strategies for variable selection and model comparison.
STAT 4520 (Mathematical Statistics) Boulder, Colorado
- Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness: tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression analysis. Analyzes various distribution-free methods.
CSCI 2270 (Computer Science 2: Data Structures) (c++, Github) Boulder, Colorado
- Studies data abstractions (e.g., stacks, queues, lists, trees, graphs, heaps, hash tables, priority queues) and their representation techniques. Teaches algorithm design and analysis.
3D Animation and Visual Effects (Autodesk Maya) Hollywood, California
- Used Autodesk Maya for 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, animating with dynamics, and rendering.
Education
CU Boulder (August 2021 - December 2025) Boulder, Colorado
Senior, B.A. in Statistics and Data Science, Minor in Creative Technology and Design. (4-Year degree)
Gnomon — School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation