Yanni Cao
Geographer
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I am a data scientist working at Picarro, San Francisco Bay Area. I completed my bachelor degree and master degree in geographic information science (GIS) at Penn State University. I had 8 years of experience in GIS and 2 years hands on experience in all aspect of data analysis.
Data Scientist
Picarro, San Francisco Bay Area, 2016-present
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Software development. Designed and developed the new solutions to solve the inertial GPS drifting problem to improve product location accuracy, increasing the feature’s market price by 78%;
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Set up Geoserver, which increased the product speed by 82%;
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Data science:Help to build up risk ranking model using linear regression and spatial correlation using Python, ArcGIS and QGIS, saved customer $2M.
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Business support: Perform risk analysis and visualization in AWS to support the new customer trials, whose contracts are more than $10M.
Vistor
National Center for Atmospheric Research(NCAR), 2015
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Attended the Big Data Python Workshop and Thredds Server Workshop
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Project: Investigate the impact of geographic coordinate system on atompsheric model
Research Assistant
The Pennsylvania State University, 2015
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Project: Estimate methane emissions from Marcellus
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Collected more than 600GB GIS data
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Built up GIS models to estimate methane from natural gas industry
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Presented in top academic conferences and won research awards
2. Project: The effects of Climate Change on Vegetation in Alaska
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Classify the landuse from aerial images in ArcGIS
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Preform statistic analysis to identify the most important control factors
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Create Visualization project for US National Park Service
3. Project: Identify Political Events Pattens from News Big Data
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Create news RSS list
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Extract text from news webpage
GIS Intern
Beijing Xicheng Planning and Information Center, 2013
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Dedicated in Beijing urban planning Road Name Database program, performed spatial analysis and created thematic maps
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Technical consultant for 3D Beijing urban planning system conference
Professional
info
Skills
ArcGIS
QGIS
ENVI
PostgreSQL
Geoserver
Thredds server
Web development
Data mining
Python
Languages
Python
R
SQL
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
Work
experience
Education
The Pennsylvania State University
Master in Science with distinction GPA: 3.83/4 (2016)
Major: Geography focusing on GIScience
Bachelor in Science with distinction GPA: 3.83/4 (2014)
Major: Geography focusing on GIScience
Summer school at Harvard University (2013) and Peking University (2014)