Curriculum Vitae

cynthia.huang@monash.edu

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy – Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University Aug 2021 — Present

  • New principles and methods for complex data preparation and integration, with applications to official statistics, web-scrapped data and satellite raster images
  • Monash Data Futures Institute PhD Top-Up Scholarship (2021-2024)
  • Expected submission date: Nov 2024

WORK EXPERIENCE

Data Scientist

Freelance, Multiple Clients Jan 2020 – June 2021

Providing data collection, pre-processing, exploratory analysis and modelling services to clients in the early R&D stages of developing data driven products. Projects include:

  • Data description and preliminary product feasibility insights for a start-up real estate bond platform; including assessing suitability of various property transaction databases for use in initial product prototype.
  • Development of statistical anomaly detection regimes and key historical insights from internet quality time-series data for use in parametric insurance products, including documenting analysis tools in an R package.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS