Stanley,
Yong Wai Keong
Home Phone:
(65) 67774921
Email: geekdom@gmail.com
Education
2000-2004
Fall 2005-Current
M.S.
Statistics (GPA 4.0)
M.S.
Computer Science (GPA 3.95)
Thesis on
Automatic Text Mining to track the History of Ideas
B.S. Computer Science (GPA 3.89)
National
University of Singapore, School of Computing
PhD candidate
Advisers: Dr
Su Jian, Professor Tan Chew Lim
Experience
1
2005-2006 Genvea, Bioinformatics startup
Part time
consultant
2004-Current Dorma
Systems
Analyst
2003-2004 UIUC
Research
Assistant in the Zhao research group (Bioinformatics)
UIUC
Department if Computer Science.
Teaching
Assistant
2003 Late Summer Accenture Technology Labs,
Research
Intern
2003 Spring & Early
Summer
Caterpillar Inc,
Intern: Thin
Films team (Model building), Furnace Atmosphere Management System Team
Caterpillar Inc,
Student
Consultant
Relevant
Skills
Significant development experience with R/S-plus idiom of statistical
programming.
Trained
but not
current in the use of SAS and Mathematica.
Deep knowledge of Java and PERL, proficiency in PHP, C++ languages.
Statistical
Techniques: Multivariate Statistics, Survival Models, Generalized Linear
Models,
Data mining
(with Statistical learning methods), Natural language processing, Stochastic
Calculus, Categorical data analysis.
Six Sigma
Green Belt
Activities
Sep 2002 -
2004
2003 &
2004
2002
Jan 1998 Apr
2000
Mar
2002-2004
Chairman of
Special Interest Group in Knowledge Discovery and Data mining
Participating
in KDD Cups, team leader with Professor Han Jiawei as
adviser
Designed and
wrote specifications for a decision support system for marketing, to be used in
an
academic environment. Project leader for implementation known
as DSM^2.
Military
Service,
Editor of www.thefreepaper.com, now defunct.
Awards
2004-2005
2000-2004
2002
2000-2003
2002
2001
Hewlett Packard Scholarship for MSC. Bioinformatics at Nanyang Technological University
Economic
Development Board of Singapore, Firefly Scholarship (Overseas award)
2
nd
Prize in
Nationals of the Andersen Business Consulting Challenge, 1
st
Prize in the
Deans List
& James Scholar
Accenture
and
achievements
Mothers
association book award for perfect GPA as a freshman
1
See second
page for details
Details for
work experience
Genvea,
Part time consultant
Discriminative
model construction using significance analysis of Microarray
data from AML cases
(Using PAM,
SAM, Empirical Bayes Models, RandomForest,
Distance Weighted Discriminant)
R workflows
for Genveas Java based bioinformatics workflow
solution (CASCADE)
Dorma
GmbH, Systems Analyst
Quantifiable
Achievements:
Reduced manual processing by 1 man hour per person per day in office.
Rationalized tracking process for defective products.
Improved safety in operations.
Implemented
a location reporting system using GPS and GRPS to track service personnel to
facilitate
dispatch
and load balancing.
Created a Wiki whiteboard system, customized for use as a simplified
Customer Relationship
Management
system suited to Dormas needs.
Created
Excel templates for transformation of financial data
Interfaced
with SAP and anachronistic Microsoft Access based system for Bill of Materials
(BOM) and
customer
information using Visual Basic and some ABAP.
Developed
Embedded Visual Basic application for handheld devices to interface with the Wiki service
system
over mobile (GPRS) network.
Web-based
employee services
Leave
application, Personal Schedule records, backup for engineering design drawings.
UIUC School
of Chemical Sciences, Research Assistant in the Zhao research group
(Bioinformatics)
Protein
linker boundary prediction: improving on existing methods to produce a more
generally
applicable
way of characterizing linker regions.
Explored
ways of combining and selecting relevant orthogonal features in a minimal
model, using
Wavelet
transforms.
Accenture Technology Labs,
Mining of
transaction database from a large chain of supermarkets, looking specifically
at possible
means of
identifying hoarding behavior. (Using SQL 2000)
Tying
economic theory in with observed patterns of behavior to define various subsets
of goods that
may be
hoarded, with survival models.
Caterpillar Inc,
Thin Films
team (Model building)
Manipulated
data from production runs with neural networks, association mining and
transformations
to impute
missing information for DOE analysis downstream
Built
predictive model based on DOE result
Furnace
Atmosphere Management System Team
Developed
Time Synchronization utility to reduce database time stamp errors resulting
from time drift
due to
inaccurate PLC oscillators, and daylights savings time changes.
Database optimization.
Reduced
database size by 50%, improving query speed up to 3 times, with an average
improvement of
25%. (With Oracle
database)
Caterpillar Inc,
T&M
program capstone project, part of a six man team of student consultants
Presented a
business case to senior level management on the feasibility of market entry in
a new
industry.
We constructed the case based on quantitative information drawn from secondary
research
from trade
journals, internet resources and market reports.
Assessed and
integrated data using Six Sigma DMEDI (Define,Measure,Explore,Develop and
Implement)
framework, including the House of Quality, QFD and Stage/Gate process.
References
available on request