Hello! My name is Xianlong Wang, and I go by Sean for English-speaking fellows. I grew up in a beautiful yet old city, Nanyang, in Henan province of China. After graduate study in statistics, mathematics, computer science and material engineering, I located a groove in Seattle, the most graceful and creative city, in 2009, and have perched here ever since.
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Email me: xianlong.wang@gmail.com
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Professional summary: |
| Seasoned data scientist with 6+ years of hand-on experience in machine learning including both supervised and unsupervised learning, data mining, big data processing and modeling. Solid experience in predictive models, linear models, time series, nonparametric methods, SVM, random forest, boosting, and bagging. Well-versed in computer programming with Python, R, SQL, C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, and certified SAS 9 base and advanced programmer. Successfully developed, both independently and collaboratively, Windows, Unix/Linux, and web based software applications. |
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Education: |
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Doctor of Philosophy, Statistics, Oregon State University, 2009 Dissertation:Classification for Longitudinal Data |
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Master of Science, Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2008 Thesis:Chen-Stein Method and Its Applications in DNA Sequence Analysis |
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Master of Science, Statistics, Oregon State University, 2005 Thesis:Joint Modeling Clustered Binary & Continuous Responses with Probit Models |
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Bachelor of Science, Material Science & Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, China, with honors, 1999 Thesis: Statistical Comparison of Properties of Birch from Different Varieties |
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Working experience: |
| 07/15 – present Data Scientist — Marketing Analytics, Nordstrom Inc. |
| 04/09 – 07/15 Staff Scientist — Biostat & Biomath program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| 09/05 – 04/09 Statistical Consultant — Statistics Department, Oregon State University |
| 12/06 – 04/09 Research Assistant — Statistics Department, Oregon State University |
| 06/05 – 09/06 Computer Administrator — Statistics Department, Oregon State University |
| 09/04 – 04/09 Teaching Assistant — Statistics Department, Oregon State University |
| 03/01 – 09/05 Research Assistant — Department of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University |
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Selected publications: |
| L K Teixeira, X Wang, Y Li, S E Reed, X Wu, P Wang, S I. Reed. 2015. “Cyclin E Deregulation Promotes Loss of Specific Genomic Regions.” Current Biology |
| B Zhang, et al. 2014. “Proteogenomic characterization of human colon and rectal cancer.” Nature link |
| J Hu, X Wang, P Wang. 2014. “Testing Gene-Gene Interactions in Genome Wide Association Studies.” Genetic Epidemiology link |
| J Kennedy, et al. 2013. “Demonstrating the feasibility of large-scale development of standardized assays to quantify human proteins.” Nature Methods link |
| X Wang, L Qin, H Zhang, Y Zhang, L Hsu, P Wang. 2013. “A regularized multivariate regression approach for eQTL analysis.” Statistics in Biosciences link |
| X Wang, A Qu. 2013. “Efficient classification for longitudinal data.” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis link |
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Skill set: |
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R packages: |
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groupRemMap Implements the regularized multivariate regression for identifying master predictors using the GroupRemMap penalty. |
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remMap Implements the regularized multivariate regression for identifying master predictors using the remmap penalty. |
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Software & applications: |
 Picture OrganizerAn android app for easily organizing and categorizing pictures on android devices. It also allows making notes on each pictures. |
 Flex InventoryAn android app for comprehensive and flexible organizing and cataloging daily events, pictures, and other items. |
 IndexEditorSoftware implemented in C/C++ for organizing, indexing and searching for information. |
 WinCORYWinCORY (Computerized Optimization of Recoverable Yield for WINDOWS) is a WINDOWS based computer aided design system to help the saw mills in wood industry to optimize the cutting yield. |
 WinTitleA WINDOWS application to grab the title of any window so that the title text can be used in any other applications. |
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Adobe Acrobat bookmark plugin Adobe Acrobat bookmark plugin is a plugin for inserting bookmarks in PDF files. |
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Professional memberships: |
| The American Statistical Association(ASA) |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics(IMS) |