Hang (Harvey) Yu
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(217) 979-4149 ● hangyu.uiuc@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/hangyu1
Summary
●Machine Learning
● Predictive Modeling
●High Performance Computing ● Time Series
● Data Mining
● Time Management
Education
Ph.D., Computational Physics. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jan 2009- Dec 2014
● Specialization: Molecular Simulation and Data Analysis with High-Performance Computers.
● C, Python, Time Series, Machine Learning, Linux.
GPA: 3.86
● Implementing Statistical Analysis Platform for Clustering Study of Proteins in C and Python.
MS, Statistics. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jul 2012- May 2014
● Specialization: Analysis of Stochastic Process and Data Mining.
● SAS, R, SPSS, Mathematica, Matlab.
GPA: 3.50
● Predictive Modeling on Large mobile Datasets in R, Financial Modeling of company in SAS.
BS. Honors, Biology / Computing. Nanyang Technological University.
Jul 2003- Jul 2007
● Specialization: Computational Modeling.
GPA: 3.82
● First Class Honors. Deanlist student for 3 years 2005-2007. Full scholarship for 4 years.
Education Program for Gifted Youth (Accelerated Program). Singapore.
● Specialization: Math, Physics.
● Completed 1.5 year coursework in 6 months. Full scholarship.
Nov 2002- Jul 2003
Employment
Computational Sciences Intern. Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company. May 2014- Aug 2014
● Computational modeling with large dataset of geological data.
● Implement machine learning algorithms on large datasets for oil location prediction.
● Improve oil location prediction accuracy by 30%.
Research Assistant. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jan 2009- Dec 2014
● Work with large linux clusters to generate stochastic data for biomolecules.
● Extract thousands of time series trajectories for data of TBs size and develop scripts for data
visualization of clustering/PCA analysis.
Project Officer. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Jul 2007- Jul 2008
● Computational modeling of biomolecules and data mining of large scale time series datasets.
● Maintain effective communication within lab members and between supervisor and lab members.
Research Scholar. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
● Computational modeling and data mining of time series data.
● Principle component and correlation analysis.
Nov 2003- Jul 2007
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Extracurricular Activities
Business Development Committee, Risk Management Club.
● Plan and implement financial outreach strategies for club of more than 200 members.
● Organize meetings and coordinate work with over 20 members of business committee.
● Secure S$5000 funding sponsorship from insurance companies (AIA).
Publication Committee, Marshal Art Club.
● Assist in developing and implementing advertising plans including newspaper, internet, T-shirts,
flyers and campus posters/banners.
● Maintain effective communication between core committees for event organization.
● Publicizing club activities with newspaper articles and obtain journalist position for NTU campus
newspaper and NTU alumni magazine.
Fellowship and Awards
12th From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology Symposium Award.
54th National Biophysics Society Meeting Travel Award.
Eugene Rabinowitch Graduate Fellowship. UIUC.
President Research Scholarship. Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore.
Deanlist Student for 2005-2007. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Undergraduate Scholarship. Ministry of Education, Singapore.
First Prize Math Olympiad Competition of Chinese High School.
May 2012
Feb 2009
Jul 2008- Jul 2009
Jul 2005- Dec 2005
Jul 2004- Dec 2007
Jul 2003- Dec 2007
Jun 2002
Selected Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant for Biophysics, Physics graduate courses, UIUC.
Jan-Dec 2012
● Teach Stochastic Process to classes of 30 students.
Teaching Assistant for Computational Biophysics Workshop, Pittsburgh PA.
May 2011
● Teach Computational Modeling and High Performance Computing to 50 students around US.
Selected Publications
Yu, H., and Schulten, K. (2013). Membrane Sculpting by F-BAR Domains Studied by Molecular
Dynamics Simulations. PLoS Computational Biology, 9:e1002892, 2013.
Zhou, Q., Li, J., Yu, H., ... Schulten, K., Sun, F., and Chen, C. (2014). Molecular insights into the
catalytic activity regulation of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase. Nature Communication, 5:3552, 2014.
Yu, H., Han, W. and Schulten, K. (2014). Beta-Hairpin Prone Region in Alpha-synuclein
Monomer: ...Revealed by Extensive Molecular Dynamics Simulations. JACS, submitted.
Selected Presentations
Membrane Sculpting by F-BAR Domains Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical
Society Meeting 2012 National Conference, Feb 2012, San Diego CA.
Beta-Hairpin Prone Region in Alpha-synuclein Monomer: A Possible Site to Initiate Oligomerization,
American Chemistry Society Meeting, Mar 2014, Dallas TX.
Programming
Programming: SAS, SPSS, R, Perl, C, C++, Python, Matlab, Mathematica, Linux, Excel/VBA, Java.
Operating Systems: Large Scale Unix/Linux Parallel systems, High-Performance Computing, MacOS.
Petroleum Engineering: Petrel, Paleoscan, RokDoc, Video Editing, Photoshop.
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