Shirui Zhou


Location

Arlington, VA
Education
    Georgetown University
    August 2022 - June 2024
    degree
    Master's
    major
    Data Science
    University of Nottingham
Work Experience
    World Bank Group
    Data Scientist
    March 2024 - present
    company
    World Bank Group
    title
    Data Scientist
    overview
    - Python (NumPy, Scikit-learn, SciPy), Stata, Excel - March 2024 - Present - Enhanced predictive analytics for firm entry and GDP per capita growth by improving RMSE by 27% and F1-score by 16.9% through fine-tuning of LSTM and GRU models in multivariate time series analysis - Enhanced adaptability to professional and enterprise surveys by engineering DTF score updates on Hive with AWS pipeline - Enabled c-level tracking of GDP performance, economic and political risk, and business regulation over 18 years across 190
    Ashoka Impact Investing
    Data Engineer
    May 2023 - September 2023
    DuneSQL
    Media Data Analyst
    March 2022 - December 2022
    Intellisia Institute
    Financial Analyst
    Guangzhou, CN
    May 2021 - December 2021
Skills
A/B TestingAdaptabilityAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache FlinkApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkBayes' Theorem (Bayesian Statistics)Big DataCalculationsCluster AnalysisComputer ProgrammingConstructionCrypto CurrencyDashboardsData AnalysisDatabasesData PipelinesData ScienceData StreamingDecision TreesDeep LearningDynamic ProgrammingEconomyESG CriteriaEViewsExtract Transform Load (ETL)Feature EngineeringFeature ExtractionFinancial Data AnalysisFinancial StocksForecasting SkillsGensimGoogle AnalyticsImpact AnalysisInformation EngineeringKnowledge of EconometricsKnowledge of EngineeringKnowledge of FinanceKnowledge of MathematicsLaTeXMachine LearningMarket RiskMarket TrendsMATLABMatplotlibMental HealthMetricsMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft ExcelMongoDBMutual FundsNFTNLTK (NLP Analysis)NumPyOrdinary Least Squares (Regression Analysis)PersonalizationPolicy GovernancePortfolio ManagementPower BIPredictive Data AnalysisPredictive ModellingPublic PoliciesPysparkPython (Programming Language)Random ForestRecommender SystemsRisk AnalysisRisk ManagementSAS (Software)Scikit LearnSciPySentiment AnalysisSocial MediaSQL DatabasesStataStatistical Hypothesis TestingStorage SystemsStrategies of PricingSurvey Data CollectionSurveysTableau (Software)Time SeriesUser ExperienceVba Programming LanguageWeb3.jsXgboost