Wenchen Shi
Natural Language Processing Intern at The Data Science Union at UCLA- Claim this Profile
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Mandarin Native or bilingual proficiency
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Cantonese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish Full professional proficiency
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Guarani Elementary proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Bio
Credentials
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Exam P
Society of ActuariesJan, 2023- Nov, 2024
Experience
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The Data Science Union at UCLA
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United States
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Think Tanks
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1 - 100 Employee
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Natural Language Processing Intern
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Apr 2023 - Present
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Data Science Analyst
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Oct 2021 - Jun 2023
Selected as 1 of the 15 data analysts out of 185+ applicants of Data Science Union● Participated in curriculum and two Data Science Projects● MLB Playoff Prediction Project: ○ Scraped raw data sets from baseball-reference.com using BeautifulSoup ○ Cleaned and organized data sets ○ Used Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Tableau to perform Exploratory Data Analysis ○ Used Decision Tree, k-nearest neighbors algorithm , and Random Forests Models to predict whichteams would make the Playoffs ● Predicting COVID Project: ○ Cleaned and organized data sets ○ Used Matplotlib and Seaborn to perform Exploratory Data Analysis Show less
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President
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Sep 2022 - Present
• Improved attendance rate by 200% by organizing recruitmentevents, surveying ~ 20 students on scheduling, andrestructuring meeting formats.•Leads weekly meetings, main manager of social media profiles including instagram and GroupMe
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Signatory and Secretary
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Jan 2021 - May 2023
● Led meetings where members converse solely in Spanish● Coordinated professors to give presentations about cultural events in Latin America● Hosted podcast-style conversation hours online during Summer 2022
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International Bruins in Business at UCLA (IBB)
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United States
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International Affairs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Tech Committee Lead
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Apr 2022 - Present
Co-created and led a curriculum teaching basic python, Pandas, Numpy, EDA, and Neural Network to members in IBB
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Business Club Intern
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Oct 2021 - Present
Member of the International Bruin's Business at UCLA
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UCLA New Student & Transition Programs
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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New Student Advisor - Gold and New Student Mentor
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Mar 2022 - Present
● As an academic and peer advisor for an entering class of over 9000 new UCLA students, provided counseling for UCLA’s academic curriculum and student services, as well as advising and support for personal issues related to transitioning to the university ● Counseled over 150 incoming students by providing direct advising and support during the program’s 20 New Student Orientation sessions and conducted presentations including extensive tours of campus and student services after over 100 hours of training ● Provided academic counseling on first year enrollment for the first quarter and into the first year and gave presentations on the academic degree and major requirements for UCLA ● Presented a personal speech about diversity in front of 700 people for the International Student Session Show less
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Undergraduate Learning Assistant Program at UCLA
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Learning Assistant
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Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
● 10 hours of work minimum every week ● Person in charge of discussion sessions along with TA ● Encourage students and provide academic help in Multivariable Calculus ● Prepare and study for discussion materials by solving problems with different approaches prior to the discussions ● Co-created a package of practice final problems for students ● 10 hours of work minimum every week ● Person in charge of discussion sessions along with TA ● Encourage students and provide academic help in Multivariable Calculus ● Prepare and study for discussion materials by solving problems with different approaches prior to the discussions ● Co-created a package of practice final problems for students
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Education
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University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate, Applied Mathematics and Spanish and Linguistics -
Orangewood Academy
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates