Mingxuan Liu
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Chinese Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Credentials
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Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
CourseraJan, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
Web Scraping in Python
DataCampDec, 2021- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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XSEDE EMPOWER Program
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Jan 2022 - Present
- Work with Dr. Elizabeth P. Hicks to explore Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flame using XSEDE's resources.- Design the workflow of running Nek5000 and visualizing data on supercomputers with Bash scripts.- Develop various scientific algorithms in Fortran 77 and utilize Git for version control and collaboration.- Run simulations under different initial conditions and document patterns shown in the flame evolution.- Analyze the temperature, velocity, vorticity field etc. generated in the simulation with Python scripts.- Explore the dependence of flame growth rate on initial conditions (e.g. gravity and perturbation).- Meet with Dr. Hicks three times per week to discuss simulation results, progress, and following works.
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Emory University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
- Work with Dr. Alissa Bans to investigate debris disks around stars with photometric data from TESS.- Meet weekly with Dr. Bans and discuss the progress, outcome, and problems faced in the research.- Develop Python scripts to query, clean, and analyze the stellar variability of Disk Detective candidates.- Combine and normalize light curve of multiple TESS sectors for long-term analysis of stellar variability.- Conduct follow-up observation to interesting targets with 24-inch telescope in Emory Observatory.
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Student Photographer
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Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
- Take photos for various school events and collaborate with peer social fellows to promote the college.- Update posts and stories (in form of pictures or videos) on Emory College's Instagram account.
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
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Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
- Apply and get selected for the SURE Program with funding provided by the Emory University.- Attend weekly Responsible Research Conduct (RCR) and Professional Development (PD) workshops.- Meet weekly with Dr. Alissa Bans to discuss questions, research progress, and future plans.- Query photometric data from TESS for targets selected by the citizen science project Disk Detective.- Analyze the variability of Disk Detective candidates with Python package Lightkurve and construct normalized Lomb-Scargle Periodograms with Python package Astropy.- Develop Python-based algorithms to measure periodogram features such as max peak power, equivalent width, half peak width, and peak ratio. - Design an Assessment Matrix to classify targets into six categories based on their variability amplitude and features on the periodograms, which largely reduces the ambiguity in the classification process.- Compare the variability distribution of Extreme Debris Disks and Young Stellar Objects and investigate the correlation between stars' variability and other known properties.- Make a poster presentation in the SURE Symposium about the research results and future plans.
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Emory DataFest 2022 - Best Insight Award
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Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
- Led a team of five members and participated in the 48-Hour competition against other Emory students.- Used Python and R to analyze datasets about teenagers' behaviors in the educational video game Elm City Stories developed by the Play2Prevent Lab within the Yale School of Medicine.- Composed a one-page write-up that summarizes our results and discusses the effect of the educational video game on children's future ability to resist drug usage.- Present our findings with visualized data and proposed two mechanisms that may explain our unexpected results.
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Oxford College of Emory University
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United States
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Oxford Buddhist Club - Co-Founder & Co-President
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Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
- Reactivated the Oxford Buddhist Club in the Oxford College of Emory University.- Built the club's executive board and chartered the club in Student Government Association.- Recruited club members through club fairs, religious events, and social media. - Attended biweekly meetings held by Oxford Office of Spiritual and Religious Life. - Organized weekly events such as guided meditation and introduction to Buddhism. - Reactivated the Oxford Buddhist Club in the Oxford College of Emory University.- Built the club's executive board and chartered the club in Student Government Association.- Recruited club members through club fairs, religious events, and social media. - Attended biweekly meetings held by Oxford Office of Spiritual and Religious Life. - Organized weekly events such as guided meditation and introduction to Buddhism.
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American Statistical Association - ASA
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United States
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Fall Data Challenge - Overall Winner
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Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
- Led a team with four members and organized weekly discussions about project details. - Analyzed datasets about food insecurity and food access in the U.S. with R language.- Visualized variable relationships with packages (e.g. ggplot2, treemap, ggpubr) in RStudio.- Composed a 15-page essay and 10-page presentation to illustrate food insecurity in the U.S.- Got awarded with the Overall Undergraduate Winner among 76 participating teams.- Acquired the complimentary membership in the American Statistical Association.
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The University of Texas at Austin
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Advanced Computing for Social Change 2021
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Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
- Selected as one of 16 participants for Computing4Change Competition in 2021.- Finished 5 consecutive courses about data analysis methods of Python in DataCamp.- Attended series workshops about conducting data analysis research and programming skills.- Utilized the supercomputer Bridges-2 in Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to analyze data.- Analyzed social problems in the U.S. and suggested solutions with publicly available data sets.- Presented research outcomes to data scientists, experts, and students from various fields.
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Education
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2020 - 2024
Emory University
Bachelor's degree, Astrophysics (BS) and Informatics (BS) -
2020 - 2021
Oxford College of Emory University
Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities -
2019 - 2019
Cornell University
Summer College, Economics of Development, A+ (98.32 out of 100)
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