Updated 3/2016
ARJUN SONDHI
Box 357232, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195
asondhi -at- uw -dot- edu
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D., Biostatistics
Academic Advisor: Marco Carone, PhD
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
B.Math., Statistics, Pure Mathematics Minor
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Sep 2014 - present
Sep 2009 - Apr 2014
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Supervisor: Ken Rice, PhD
• Rare variant association testing for case-control gene sequencing studies
2014 - present
• Funded by Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Supervisor: Yingli Qin, PhD
• High-dimensional hypothesis testing
2013 - 2014
• Partially funded by NSERC award
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Supervisor: Cecilia Cotton, PhD
• Causal inference with observational recurrent event data
2013
• Partially funded by NSERC award
INDUSTRY
EXPERIENCE
Quantitative Analyst Intern
Google
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Mountain View, CA
• Developed product for geographic prediction of survey responses by combining survey
and search engine data using Bayesian variable selection and Bayesian logistic regression
• Performed meta-analyses to establish requirements for survey sample size, geographic
variation, and response variance
• Implemented tests for model goodness-of-fit and cross-validation for prediction error estimates in codebase
• Analyzed longitudinal dataset for custom client study by combining product with time
series methods
Quantitative Researcher Intern
Facebook
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Menlo Park, CA
• Performed research to improve understanding of advertisement effectiveness
• Developed analysis framework for new conversion measurement project
• Analyzed data for clients’ Facebook campaigns; refined methodology to better estimate
causal effects of advertisements
Product Analyst Intern
Facebook
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012; Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Menlo Park, CA
• Analyzed data and presented key insights to inform mobile product strategy
• Individually researched the long-term shift of user activity from PC to mobile internet
and the impact on Facebook products
• Examined the impact of tablet adoption upon user behaviour as part of collaborative
research project on the tablet market
• Designed a holdout experiment for Facebook SMS and analyzed resulting data to understand impact of different notifications on user engagement
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
• Winter 2013, 2014: MATH 138 (Calculus 2 for Honours Mathematics)
2011 - 2014
• Spring 2012: STAT 231 (Introduction to Statistics)
• Fall 2011: MATH 225 (Applied Linear Algebra 2)
• Winter 2011: MATH 136 (Linear Algebra 1 for Honours Mathematics)
Head Tutor/Course Tutor
2010 - 2013
Students Offering Support - Waterloo Chapter
• Tutored students in undergraduate mathematics courses for midterm and final exams
• Presented course material in lecture format to groups ranging from 30 to 300 students
• Raised money to support educational development in Latin America and Africa
PRESENTATIONS
• Sondhi, A., Shojaie, A., Estimating directed acyclic graphs in high dimensions. UW
Biostatistics Student Seminar, Seattle, WA, February 2016
• Sondhi, A., Rice, K.M., Association testing for rare genetic variants. Fifth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics, Seattle, WA, November 2015
HONOURS
• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
• Dean’s Honours List
• UW President’s Scholarship
TECHNICAL
SKILLS
• Advanced knowledge of R and SQL
• Proficient in Python and LATEX
• Basic knowledge of SAS, MATLAB, and Octave
2013
2011-2014
2009