CV

Yu-Shin Liou

The department of Sociology in National Taiwan University (undergraduate)
Extension student in UC Berkeley
Email: yushin@berkeley.edu
Phone: +1 909-630-2864

Skills

Programming Languages

• C/C++, Python, js, html, css, react (GitHub page)

Statistics related

• Stata, R, SPSS, LISREL, HLM, excel

Quantitative Research Experience

Big Data Research Group, Research Assistant

The Institute of Information, Sociology, and Statistics at Academia Sinica (Joint employment)
March 2021 - Present

• social media survival analysis: Constructed dynamic network graphs using comment/tag record on FB and used survival analysis to analyze the formation of ties.
• Explore the Relationship between Social Network and Loneliness: Conducted logistic regression and found that individuals tend to feel more loneliness when they have a lower local clustering network.

Food delivery platform, Research Assistant

Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica
Feb 2023 - July 2023

• content: Develop a web crawler to auto-fetch daily menus from UberEats and Foodpanda for restaurants in Taiwan

Related Course Experience

• Introduction of artificial intelligence: A- (UC Berkeley, Department of computer science, 2022 Fall semester)
• Applied Deep Learning: A- (NTU, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2022 Fall semester)
• Data Structures and Advanced Program Design: A (NTU, Department of Information Management, 2023 Fall semester)
• Programming Design (c++ programming): A+ (NTU, Department of Information Management, 2022 Fall semester)

Teaching Assistant Experience

Global MBA Program Core Course TA, English-medium instruction

Business Administration, National Taiwan University
2022 Fall semester

• course name: Statistics and Data Analysis
• Background: Most students in the program have management positions and working experience of 5+ years.

Statistics Education Center TA, English-medium instruction

Core Course TA in Business Administration, National Taiwan University
2023 spring semester

• course name: Statistics
• Background: The first undergraduate student at NTU to be admitted as a TA by the Statistics Education Center.

Qualitative Research Experience

The Fire Evacuation Map for the Blind, User Experience Research

Crowd Social Enterprise & Association of Parents of Visually Impaired Individuals
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022

• Content: Using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Including unstructured interviews, questionnaire surveys, and user experiments.
• Results: The research result was applied to some public place blind map designs and provided to the National Fire Agency to enact the CNS blind map standard.

Awards

• Social Simulation Workshop, 1st place: Reproduced classic Agent-based Models in social science. Rewarded 60,000 NTD (about 2,000 USD), 2021
• National Taiwan University Principle award, Scholarship Recipient: An academic achievement award that grants a one-year full tuition scholarship at NTU, 2022
• 5th Yulin Talent Cultivation Program Scholarship, Scholarship Recipient: A social practice Scholarship rewarded 600,000 NTD(about 20,000 USD), 2022
• Future Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Scholarship Recipient: Provides living expenses, airfare, and full tuition for an exchange program at UC Berkeley, USA, 2023