Yian Chen

I am an aspired data scientist. I have collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop machine learning models, simulations, deploy data pipelines, and conduct experiments to improve performance.

Grab, DATA SCIENCE INTERN Aug 2022 – Dec 2022

• Design and maintain ML pipeline to generate graph structured data to predict collusion and fraud in GrabFood and GrabMart
• Design heuristic rules and generate statistical features for datapoints using GraphFrame and SQL
• Achieved 80% precision in predicting frauds

• Evaluate effectiveness of gamified health programs through 8,000,000 entries of app usage data and health kit biometrics data with pandas and Spark
• Recommend area of improvement of program mechanism to enhance user experience and improve user retention for future programs 

• A software startup encourages socially responsible hiring
• Championed use of Azure matchbox recommender as a machine learning model to predict candidate recommendation for job searches
• Programmed data cleansing on database and build data pipeline to deploy model as a web service 

National University of Singapore Aug 2020 – Present

Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Data Science and Analytics

• Minor in Computing and Japanese Language Studies
• Relevant modules: Mathematics, Statistics, Computing
• University Town College Program with a focus in active citizenship and community engagement
• GPA 4.45/5.0 expected to graduate in May 2024
• Available to work from Dec 2023 – May 2024