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Chunxu Wang

Ithaca, NY,NY

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Data Analyst

Shandong Taishan Football Club
04.2021 - 08.2021
  • Collected and analyzed basic data about Shandong Taishan Team and opponents, such as goals scored and conceded; the report can be used to adjust training sessions to strengthen the team's weaknesses and exploit those of opponents
  • Used Reinforcement Learning techniques like Q-learning to analyze the situations during a match where players have multiple options, such as passing, shooting, and dribbling; trained models to provide the best possible winning strategies.

Machine Learning Engineer

Tencent
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Responsible for data collection and preprocessing to ensure quality standards were met for model training. Utilized Python and libraries such as Pandas and NumPy for data analysis.
  • Participated in optimizing models by tuning parameters and improving algorithms to enhance precision and efficiency. Engaged actively in project meetings, reported progress, and sought solutions to challenges, collaborating closely with team members.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Statistics And Computer Science (dual-major)

The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA
12.2023

Master of Science - Statistics And Data Science

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
05.2025

Skills

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • R
  • PyTorch
  • SAS

Research

Sentimental Analysis in Social Media (Twitter) | Research Assistant, supervised Prof. Siyuan Liu  Sept. 2021 - June. 2023 | Pennsylvania State University

  • Collected Twitter posts in the United States about the COVID-19, using Twitter API and web scrapper
  • Conducted sentimental analysis on the Twitter posts, aiming to find the sentimental trend of US public during pandemic
  • Used Dynamic Sentiment Analysis method to analyze sentiment in a temporal way over time, resulting in better performance



Football Scoring & Teaching using Machine Learning | Researcher  Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2022 | Wuhan University

  • Researched on modern information technology to create a modern education information environment, on infiltrating and applying collected information to football teaching, promoting the development of student’s teaching innovation
  • Initial results showed that applying machine learning techniques to teaching has a far-reaching significance for football players’ post-match scoring, in both motivation level and grade evaluation


Natural language Processing | Researcher with Professor Wenpeng Yin Sept.2023 - Dec.2023 | Pennsylvania State University

  • Used CNN and RNN to do the Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews, aimed at classifying the sentiment of sentences extracted from the Rotten Tomatoes dataset. The objective is to discern whether a given sentence expresses positive or negative sentiment.

Publications

The Impact of Negative Platform News on User Behavior, Secondary-author    Dec. 2021 | The Pennsylvania State University

  • Study shows that negative news report not only has effect on company's business strategies, but also on its user behaviors. Data (100k+) sourced from Bilibili, where Difference-in-Differences measure and Rubin Causal Model were used to quantify user behavior, which was then imported into Hypothesis Testing on user metrics between control and treatment group.
  • Suggestions to state-run news agency: pay more attention to the impact of negative news on customer-facing industries.
  • Paper published as: He, Wang, Xu, & Fan. (n.d.). The Impact of Negative Platform News on Users Behavior. International Conference on Machine Learning, Big Data and Business Intelligence.

Timeline

Machine Learning Engineer

Tencent
05.2023 - 08.2023

Assistant Data Analyst

Shandong Taishan Football Club
04.2021 - 08.2021

Bachelor of Science - Statistics And Computer Science (dual-major)

The Pennsylvania State University

Master of Science - Statistics And Data Science

Cornell University
Chunxu Wang