Guo Zhang

Education

08/2014-07/2018 (expected)

B.A., Economics, Xiamen University

Undergraduate Accelerated Program in Economics, WISE

• Courses:
  • Principles of Economics, Principles of Accounting, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Economic Growth, Chinese Economy, Economic History, Microeconometics;
  • Mathematical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Bayes Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Real Analysis, Time Series Analysis;
  • MATLAB, Mathematica, LaTeX, C, Python.
• Awards:
  • National Endeavor Fellowship in Nov. 2015
  • "Three Good" Student at Xiamen University in Nov. 2015

08/2015-07/2018 (expected)

B.A., Statistics, Xiamen University

Double Degree in Statistics(Neo-Confucianism), WISE

• Courses: Corporate Finance, Regression Analysis, Stata

Projects

02/2016-Present

China's Prices Project at Xiamen University‚ Founder & Team Leader

• Goal: applying methods of big data and computational economics to study China online platforms
• Research:
  • Making China CPI-Like Daily Price Indexes with Scraped Data
  • Search Engine Design of China Online Retailer Platforms
• Tutor: Prof. Jiaming Mao, WISE
• Staff: 30
• Links:
  • Blog: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/xmucpp
  • GitHub: https://github.com/xmucpp

05/2016-Present

Zuqizhisheng Social Practice Team, Xiamen University‚ Academic Guidance

• Topic: trust mechanism of China short rent(Airbnb-like) market
• Responsibility: help to select topics and design research plans; help to solve academic and technical problems.
• Team honor: Xiamen University Key Social Practice Team

03/2016-Present

Prof.Qin's Team, School of Economics, Xiamen University‚ Technical Leader & Second Author

• Topic: text mining in finance and accounting
• Responsibility: technical leader in web scraping and text mining

11/2015-11/2015

2015 China’s Social-economic Development Analysis Tournament (held by Harvard University)‚ Research Assistant

• Competition item: data sorting(60%) and report(40%)
• Responsibility: author of team report; part of data sorting
• Honor: rank 20/400+ for report, competiting with graduates and undergraduates

08/2015-02/2016

985 Staffs Database Project, School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University‚ Member

• Topic: make a staff database of Chinese 985 universities
• Responsibility: technical affairs in software and computer programming

05/2015-09/2015

China Internet Project, University of California-Berkeley‚ Research Assistant

• Responsibility: sort Internet and judicature variables from China yearbooks and bulletins

05/2015-12/2015

Qincheshulu Social Practice Team, Xiamen University‚ Member

• Topic: China Uber-like market
• Responsibility: technical support; all kinds of activities.
• Team honor:
  • National Top 15, 2015 Research China of Nanfenchuan
  • National Rank 75, 2015 University Student Social Practice Assessment of People Net
  • 2015 Provice Excellent Social Practice Team
  • 2015 Xiamen University Key Social Practice Team
  • Rank 1, 1th Social Practice Competition, Xiamen University
  • 2th Price, 2015 Pubilc Economic Competition, Xiamen University
  • Top 10 papers and research reports,2015 social practice activities of School of Economics, Xiamen University

Activities

02/2017-Present

Python China Community, Co-Partner

• Link: http://python-cn.com
• Responsibility: strategy adviser, author of media and lecturer of PyLive

06/2016-Present

WISER Club, Co-Partner

• Link: https://wise-r.github.io
• Responsibility: strategy adviser and contracting with Prof. Thomas J. Sargent

04/2016-Present

Undergraduate Top Plan in Economics, Xiamen University‚ Member

• Admitted as the first order in 2016

06/2015-01/2016

WISE Book Club‚ Organizer

• Responsibility: organize daily activities.

09/2014-07/2015

14 International Experiment Class, WISE‚ Monitor

• Responsibility: class affairs

Skills

Language

English

• TOEFL: 87

Programming

Advanced

• Python, LaTeX

Intermediate

• MongoDB(No-SQL Database), R, Stata, MATLAB, C

Beginner

• C++, Julia, JavaScript

zhangguo@stu.xmu.edu.com • +86 18906052847
Address - Xiamen University, Fujian, China