Yanning (Evelyn) Liu
Champaign,IL
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian, China
01.2026 - Current
- Conducted research in Prof. Wang’s Research Group on left-truncated survival analysis using CDC NHANES data and constructed time-to-event outcomes from participant age and mortality records.
- Assisted with Cox proportional hazards modeling and Trans-Lasso transfer learning for high-dimensional survival analysis across heterogeneous source datasets.
- Reviewed literature and ran R experiments to evaluate public datasets, cross-dataset transferability, truncation effects, and potential methodological extensions.
Data Analyst Intern
Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
06.2026 - 08.2026
- Cleaned and transformed large-scale Douyin and web-based social media data using Python, pandas, and NumPy, including deduplication, missing-value handling, and text preprocessing.
- Collected and processed CSV/JSON data through REST APIs, Requests, BeautifulSoup, and Selenium, and used SQL for filtering, joins, aggregation, and preparation of analysis-ready datasets.
Lab Assistant Intern
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
Dalian, China
03.2025 - 06.2025
- Processed and organized experimental data from gas chromatography (GC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), including data cleaning and preparation for analysis.
- Worked with data generated from Agilent gas chromatography systems and Mettler Toledo simultaneous thermal analyzers and assisted with interpreting experimental results.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Statistics & Computer Science
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL05-2029
Skills
- Programming: Python, C, R, Java, SQL
- Tools & Technologies: Git/GitHub, Linux, MySQL, NumPy, REST APIs
- Data & Statistics: Statistical Analysis, Statistical Computing, Survival Analysis, Data Cleaning
Timeline
Data Analyst Intern
Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited
06.2026 - 08.2026
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dalian University of Technology
01.2026 - Current
Lab Assistant Intern
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
03.2025 - 06.2025
Bachelor of Science - Statistics & Computer Science
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign