Wenqi Shan
Queens,New York
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Operating Officer
The World In Us
09.2025 - Current
- Direct organizational strategy and oversee cross-functional projects across seven departments, ensuring alignment with the mission.
- Partner with executive leadership to evaluate strategic opportunities, allocate resources, and monitor key performance indicators.
- Manage cross-border project teams to deliver international education and cultural exchange programs, coordinating operations across time zones and diverse stakeholders.
Research Assistant
Governance Lab on Sociotechnical Systems (GLOSS)
01.2025 - Current
- Design and implement a Natural Language Processing pipeline in R to analyze corporate documents from 10 major tech companies.
- Preprocess text data (lemmatization, custom stopword removal, TF-IDF weighting) and train Latent Dirichlet Allocation models to identify 10 key topics per company.
- Identify regional trends by analyzing qualitative patterns with attention mechanisms and visualizations (ggplot2, lattice).
- Quantify cross-company similarities using cosine similarity metrics, demonstrating higher thematic alignment within regions.
Leadership Council Member
URounded
05.2023 - Current
- Draft and present website improvement and project workflow recommendations to enhance organizational efficiency.
- Strengthen leadership and project management skills by attending biweekly meetings and overseeing key initiatives in collaboration with like-minded professionals and peers.
Teaching Assistant
America Reads/America Counts
12.2024 - 10.2025
- Collaborated with program coordinators and classroom teachers to align tutoring sessions with curriculum goals and instructional needs.
- Provided targeted small-group support in reading and mathematics to ESL and special education students, adapting instructional strategies to accommodate diverse learning styles and language backgrounds.
- Reinforced foundational literacy and numeracy skills through differentiated instruction, helping students increase comprehension, confidence, and classroom engagement.
Head of Fellowship
The World In Us
05.2025 - 09.2025
- Designed and co-led a global youth fellowship focused on global citizenship, cultural awareness, and storytelling.
- Developed fellowship structure, topics, and activities; facilitated weekly 90-minute virtual sessions with international participants.
- Co-led Mandarin cultural discovery session for annual international program, fostering cross-cultural engagement and language learning.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Sciences, Data Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, iSchool
Champaign, IL08.2026
Skills
- Awards: UIUC Dean’s List, AP Scholar with Distinction, NYSSMA Silver Award
- Technical Skills: Python (Advanced), Java (Intermediate), R (Advanced), SQL (Advanced), Microsoft Office (Advanced)
- Language Skills: Mandarin (Bilingual), Cantonese (Intermediate), Spanish (Elementary)
LEADERSHIP & EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE
Chinese Engineering Student Association, Event Planner & Coordinator Plan and execute 3 cultural/technical events (50-100 attendees), managing budgets and cross-functional teams of 20+ members. Design feedback surveys to improve future events, achieving 90% attendee satisfaction. Streamline communication by creating multilingual event materials, ensuring accessibility for non-native English speakers. EV Concept, Business Subteam Member Managed team budget to ensure efficient allocation of resources for various aspects of car development and team activities. Conducted research to identify and reach out to prospective sponsors to foster relationships that contributed to the club’s funding. Collaborated with members to develop promotional materials, enhancing the club's visibility and appeal to potential sponsors and partners.
Presentations
Shan, Wenqi. “Industry Influence on Global AI Policy.” Oral presentation at the UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Apr. 2025. Presented in Session 3:45–5:00 p.m., Room 209.
Timeline
Chief Operating Officer
The World In Us
09.2025 - Current
Head of Fellowship
The World In Us
05.2025 - 09.2025
Research Assistant
Governance Lab on Sociotechnical Systems (GLOSS)
01.2025 - Current
Teaching Assistant
America Reads/America Counts
12.2024 - 10.2025
Leadership Council Member
URounded
05.2023 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Information Sciences, Data Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, iSchool