Stanley, Yong Wai Keong

Home Phone: (65) 67774921 Mobile: (65) 98586231

Education

2000-2004

Fall 2005-Current

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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 GmbH, Singapore.

Systems Analyst

2003-2004 UIUC School of Chemical Sciences.

Research Assistant in the Zhao research group (Bioinformatics)

UIUC Department if Computer Science.

Teaching Assistant

2003 Late Summer Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, Illinois.

Research Intern

2003 Spring & Early

Summer

Caterpillar Inc, Peoria, Illinois.

Intern: Thin Films team (Model building), Furnace Atmosphere Management System Team

Caterpillar Inc, Champaign, Illinois.

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, Republic of Singapore Air Force, Singapore

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

Midwest competition

Deans List & James Scholar

Accenture and College of Engineering award for outstanding leadership and academic

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, Chicago, Illinois. Intern

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, Peoria, Illinois. Intern

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, Champaign, Illinois. Student Consultant

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