Yan Liu

Co-Founder at 7EDU
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Cupertino, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • E-Learning Providers
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder
      • Apr 2016 - Present

      Cupertino, CA 7EDU is an education company located at the Silicon Valley. Our educational philosophy is “Study Smarter, Not Harder”. We strongly advocate learning strategies over tactless effort. 7EDU has researched and developed methods to harmonize this strategic based pedagogy with the American Education System, and subsequently, produced a unique, systematic learning curriculum. We are dedicated to serving students in the United States as well as those who desire to receive U.S. education.

    • United States
    • Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • Dec 2014 - Mar 2016

      Mountain View, CA I believe through technology we can offer everyone an opportunity to receive quality education regardless of his/her family background. At Coursera, I develop predictive models to forecast our content demand, build dashboards to monitor our content demand, support external and internal data export and analysis requests, and communicate the insights of data analysis to other analysts as well as the management team.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Associate Professor (Tenured)
      • Aug 2012 - Dec 2014

      Dayton, Ohio Area Served on the editorial board of two international journals, published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed top-tier journals, conference proceedings, and books, and received $400K grants from various federal and state government agencies. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses, mentored graduate students, conducted applied research to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of systems by exploiting the power of the current and emerging information technologies, particularly through… Show more Served on the editorial board of two international journals, published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed top-tier journals, conference proceedings, and books, and received $400K grants from various federal and state government agencies. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses, mentored graduate students, conducted applied research to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of systems by exploiting the power of the current and emerging information technologies, particularly through machine learning and data visualization.

    • Assistant Professor
      • Aug 2006 - Aug 2012

      Dayton, Ohio

    • Germany
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist Consultant
      • Sep 2009 - Dec 2014

      Cincinnati, Ohio Area Provided data analysis support to the Operations Research Team at Kroger Inc. In particular, I applied machine learning and optimizations to better understand Kroger's customers and identify opportunities for increasing sales.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Jan 2000 - May 2006

      West Lafayette, IN I worked on various research projects funded by NSF, Indiana 21st Century Technology and Fund, and Purdue Research Foundation during this period. Besides, I worked as a graduate database programmer for the School of Education for more than 3 years.

Education

  • Stanford University
    Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics
    2013 - 2015
  • Purdue University
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering
  • Purdue University
    mini-MBA program Applied Management Principles
  • Purdue University
    Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics
  • Purdue University
    M.S., Industrial Engineering
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing
    BE, Mechanical Engineering (Focus: Mechatronics)

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