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Erica Yang

Data Scientist | Applied Machine Learning | Statistical Modeling | Model Evaluation

I am a Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Statistics and experience in applied machine learning, predictive modeling, experimentation, and business analytics. My work focuses on whether models and analytical systems are reliable enough to support real decisions—not only whether they achieve a strong headline metric.

I am particularly interested in model validation, probability calibration, threshold selection, stability analysis, subgroup performance, behavioral data, and translating statistical evidence into clear recommendations.

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Core Expertise

  • Applied Machine Learning: XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, classification, feature engineering, model validation, SHAP, PyTorch, and transformer-based NLP
  • Statistical Evaluation: ROC-AUC, PR-AUC, probability calibration, threshold analysis, simulation-based testing, Kendall-tau stability, bootstrap uncertainty, and subgroup diagnostics
  • Product and Business Analytics: A/B testing, KPI development, customer segmentation, conversion, retention, revenue analysis, SQL workflows, and interactive dashboards
  • Programming and Tools: Python, SQL, R, SAS, C++, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Git/GitHub, Tableau, Power BI, and AWS

Featured Projects

Project Focus Methods and Tools
Financial Market Sentiment Analysis Reproducible NLP pipeline for extracting and comparing sentiment signals from financial text FinBERT, VADER, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, Python
Credit Default Risk Modeling Leakage-controlled credit-risk modeling with calibrated probabilities and cost-sensitive decision thresholds XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, ROC-AUC, PR-AUC, calibration
Portfolio Optimization and Investment Risk Analysis Multi-strategy portfolio construction with out-of-sample evaluation and explicit risk diagnostics Modern Portfolio Theory, Black-Litterman, covariance shrinkage, walk-forward backtesting, VaR/CVaR
Customer Revenue and Retention KPI Dashboard End-to-end business-intelligence workflow for revenue, customer, product, retention, and conversion analysis SQL, Python, Plotly Dash, Power BI modeling, DAX
Diabetes Risk Prediction with Machine Learning and Deep Learning Healthcare risk-prediction benchmark comparing traditional machine learning with a PyTorch CNN XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, 1D CNN, calibration, SHAP, Integrated Gradients
Missing Data Mechanisms and Imputation Reliability in Healthcare Repeated-simulation study of how missingness mechanisms and imputation choices affect value recovery, prediction, calibration, coefficient bias, and sample retention MCAR, MAR, MNAR, complete-case analysis, KNN, Bayesian iterative imputation, multiple imputation, statistical simulation

Current Focus

I am continuing to develop production-oriented machine-learning and analytics projects that combine:

  • rigorous statistical evaluation;
  • reproducible data and modeling pipelines;
  • business or domain-specific decision logic;
  • clear documentation of assumptions, limitations, and responsible use.

Professional Interests

Applied machine learning · Predictive modeling · Product analytics · Experimentation · Model reliability · Financial and healthcare analytics · Decision-support systems

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  1. NLP_based_Sentiment_Analysis_for_Financial_Market NLP_based_Sentiment_Analysis_for_Financial_Market Public

    Reproducible financial-text sentiment classification using VADER, FinBERT, PyTorch, and model evaluation.

    Python 1

  2. portfolio-optimization portfolio-optimization Public

    Portfolio optimisation and investment risk analysis using Modern Portfolio Theory, Black–Litterman allocation, and out-of-sample backtesting.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  3. credit-risk-modeling credit-risk-modeling Public

    A credit default risk modelling project using the Give Me Some Credit dataset, with XGBoost, probability calibration, and cost-sensitive threshold evaluation.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  4. Customer_Revenue_and_Retention_KPI_Dashboard Customer_Revenue_and_Retention_KPI_Dashboard Public

    The repository demonstrates an end-to-end analytics workflow using SQL, Python, Plotly Dash, Power BI modelling specifications, and DAX measures.

    Python 1

  5. diabetes-ai-prediction diabetes-ai-prediction Public

    Diabetes risk prediction using XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, and a PyTorch 1D CNN with calibration and subgroup evaluation.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  6. healthcare-missing-data-strategy healthcare-missing-data-strategy Public

    Healthcare missing-data analysis comparing complete-case, KNN, Bayesian iterative, and multiple imputation under MCAR, MAR, and MNAR.

    Jupyter Notebook 1