430 Wood St. Hawkins Hall 636 Cindy Lui email: [email protected] West Lafayette, IN 47906 U.S. Citizen phone: (410) 978-5834
Objective To apply my statistical knowledge and skills to real-world problems in an interdisciplinary environment
Education M.S., Mathematical Statistics (August, 2010) Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. B.S., Applied Math & Statistics (with Honors) – Entrepreneurship & Management Minor (May, 2008) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Relevant Graduate Coursework and Technical Skills: Statistical Programming and Data Management, Financial Mathematics, Mathematica, R, SAS, SPSS, Java, C/C++, Python, Visual Basic
Statistical Consulting and Research Experience Consultant West Lafayette, IN Statistical Consulting Service, Purdue University 06/09– 05/10 • Designed statistical studies, analyzed data, and resolved software issues for the research of about 50 faculty and students at Purdue from the engineering and social science departments. • Provided statistical software help for walk-in clients at the software desk.
Research Assistant College Park, MD Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland 06/08– 08/08 • Developed five different algorithms in R and Visual Basic to generate potential candidate genes as opposites for a list of query genes in plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Research Assistant Baltimore, MD Biostatistics Department, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health 01/08 – 05/08 • Analyzed quality of a two-tiled microarray by creating chromosome intensity graphs in R of the top and bottom probes.
Research Assistant Baltimore, MD Biostatistics Department, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health 09/07 – 12/07 • Developed a package in R to analyze genes for significant mutations that cause breast cancer and colorectal cancer, and expanded the current package to analyze gene sets.
Researcher Chicago, IL REU in Bioinformatics, Loyola University 6/07 - 8/07 • Analyzed microarray gene expression data in Python and R to determine correlation between evolutionary distance and gene expression profile distance in schizophrenia.
Research Assistant Baltimore, MD Applied Math Department, Johns Hopkins University 9/06 - 5/07 • Developed and validated a formula that improves accuracy of site percolation threshold for lattice graphs.
National Space Club Scholars Program Greenbelt, MD NASA Summers 2004, 2003 • Determined electron densities from plasmagrams, identified echoes and resonances from satellites, processed images using the Envi software package, and assessed the quality of a space instrument.
Page 1 of 2 Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant West Lafayette, IN Department of Statistics, Purdue University 08/08 - current • Managed labs in Elementary Statistical Methods, which consisted of performing analyses in SPSS; taught recitations, wrote and graded quizzes, and held office hours for Statistics and Society.
Instructor West Lafayette, IN Department of Statistics, Purdue University 05/10 – 06/10 • Prepared and delivered all lectures; wrote and graded quizzes, homework, and exams; held office hours for Statistics and Society.
Presentations & Papers • Lui, Cindy. “Evolutionarily Related Genes and Their Expression Profiles in Schizophrenia.” 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA. 6-9 January 2008. (Also presented at REU, 2007) • Lui, Cindy. “Improvement of Site Percolation Threshold Approximations.” National Conference on Undergraduate Research, San Rafael, CA. 12-14 April 2007. (Published in Conference Proceedings) • Lui, Smalletz, Wierman. “Percolation Threshold Approximations Based on the Second Moment of the Degree Distribution. “Congressus Numernatium (2007).
Activities & Honors • Ross Assistantship: Statistics Department, Purdue University, Fall, 2008 – Fall, 2012 • Teaching Assistant: Applied Math Department, Johns Hopkins University, Fall, 2007 - May, 2008 • Member, Taiwanese American Students Association & Alpha Phi Omega • Secretary, Chinese Lion Dance Troupe • Maryland Distinguished Scholar Talent in the Arts – Finalist
Additional Skills • Knowledgeable in Windows and Unix Operating Systems • Fluent in spoken Chinese & accomplished pianist and flutist
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