Lin Yu

  lyu6@ualberta.ca       thisislinyu      lin-yu.me       (+86)187-1680-2989

You may see her CV in Chinese here.

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   EDUCATION

University of Alberta (M.S. in Epidemiology, 2019.09-2021.12)

Thesis:Risk Prediction of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency in Childhood Cancer Survivors Using Polygenic Risk Scores and Clinical Predictors

 Alberta, Canada

Southern Medical University (B.S. in Biostatistics, 2015.09-2019.06)

Thesis: A Renyi test based method for comparing two AUCs with ROC curves crossover

 Guangzhou, China

   RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant

 2020.02-2020.04

• Provided research assistance to Dr. Fang Ba. Helped with statistical analysis and wrote up reports
  
• Co-authored a paper entitled: DBS-Edmonton app, a tool to “manage” patient expectations of DBS in Parkinson’s disease

Graduate Research Assistant

 2019.09-2020.08

• Provided research assistance to Dr.Yan Yuan. Conducted literature review, simulation study and statistical analysis
  
• Simulation study: Evaluate the performance of three internal validation methods (Cross-validation, Split-sample average and Bootstrapping) in calculating confidence interval
• Wrote up a manuscript entitled “Modelling fertility potential in survivors of childhood cancer: An introduction to modern statistical and computational methods”

   TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Biostatistics II

 2020 Winter

• Teaching assistant of Biostatistics II courses at University of Alberta
  
• Organize STATA lab sessions and monitor the discussion forum

Biostatistics I

 2020 Fall & 2021 Fall

• Teaching assistant of Biostatistics I courses at University of Alberta
  
• Helped with one on one STATA questions during lab, online STATA questions, and mark homework

   EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Biostatistican

 2018.07-2018.09

Guangzhou Tianpeng Computer Technology Co., Ltd

• Summarized biostatistics methodologies and wrote reports
  
• Wrote R codes and got involved in the design of interactive interface for big data analysis platform

   Community Engagement

Flatten the curve

 2020.04

Used Shiny to create a user-friendly interactive web page to simulate COVID-19 development

SAS Workshop

 2020.03 and 2021.02

Held SAS basic workshop in the School of Public Health

EpiRhandbook Translation

 2021.08-present

Epi Rhandbook Chinese translation group volunteer and coordinator

ARCC Conference

 2021.05

Gave a presentation at the ARCC (Canadian Center for Applied Research in Cancer Control) conference

   Skills

Proficient in R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, and MS (Word, Excel and PPT)

Language: Chinese (native), English(fluent)

   Awards and Recognitions

Canadian Center for Applied Research in Cancer Control Studentship

 2020.09-2021.09

Research funding for cancer-related studies ($25,000 CAD)

Statistical Society of Canada Student Travel Award

 2020.07

Travel award for selected abstracts ($500 CAD)

Southern Medical University (SMU) Academic Award

 2016-2017 and 2017-2018

An award to the top 10% students(￥3,000 Chinese yuan)

Outstanding Student Award, SMU

 2016-2017 and 2017-2018

For students with a strong academic record

MathorCup Mathematical Modeling Challenge, National 2nd tier Award

 2018.04

Precision Marketing for the Targeted Users of the Surpass-Brand Mobile Phone (top 10%, team award)

• Constructed binary classifier using Support Vector Machine algorithm to study customers’ purchase predisposition
• Evaluated the purchase potential of 50 customers with an accuracy of 90%

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