General questions: I'm looking for some suggestions for the school choice. My research interest is mainly about machine learning
I don't have professional research experience. I came to work as a data scientist at a life science company and currently work as a data scientist for a marketing company.
Undergrad Institution: US NEWS T50, Public universities T20
Major(s): Applied Statistics
Minor(s): Psychology
GPA: 3.52/4.00
Type of Student: International female
Graduate Institution: US NEWS T30
Major(s): Statistics and data analytics
Minor(s): N/A
GPA: 3.91/4.00
GRE General Test: N/A
GRE Subject Test in Mathematics: N/A
Programs Applying: PhD in Stats/Data Science
Research Experience:
I don't have professional research experience, but I used to do several projects during academia and work.
Course Projects:
Data analysis for a bank deposit promotion
classification project
linear regression project
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean’s List, Semester Honor
Pertinent Activities or Jobs:
1. Develop a recommendation system and do data analysis for customer data at a marketing company
2. Develop and test a machine learning-based multivariate data analysis tool at the Research & Development department at a life science company
3. Do promotion planning data analysis for a marketing company
Letters of Recommendation:
Linear regression Professor
time-series Professor
Detection and estimation theory professor
Math/Statistics Courses: Calculus I-III, Differential Equations, Elementary Diffeq, Stochastic Processes, Probability Theory, Math theory of statistics, Stat sequence, Statistical Learning, Regression Methods, Multivariate Analysis, Linear Algebra sequence, Optimization, time series,
