Name
:: Shihua Wen
Ph.D.

Major
:: Statistics

Advisor
:: Prof. Kedem

Location
:: Dept. of Mathematics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA

Objective: A full-time job in data analysis or quantitative research which can use my extensive statistical analysis and computing skill.

Education
• Ph.D.     Statistics                  University of Maryland, College Park                   2007

Industry Experience
Research Statistician, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL     2007 ~ present
• Provide statistical inputs to plan the phase II / III clinical trials, including sample size calculation, experimental design, protocol writing, etc.
• Interpret statistical outputs to clinical team and consult with team for any statistical issues throughout the whole process of the drug development.
• Write SAS or R programs to perform statistical analysis and simulations during drug development.
• Review study reports and verify program codes to ensure accuracy and consistency.

Intern Statistician, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville, MD     Summer 2004, 2005
• Reviewed many NDAs (New Drug Application) to find qualified data sets.
• Wrote SAS programs to investigate the performance of three statistical methods that are used to evaluate the efficacy of drugs under dropout condition using real data.

Statistical Consultant, Statistics Laboratory, University of Maryland                  2004 - 2005
• Provided professional advice on statistical experiment design and data analysis to various clients.
• Wrote sophisticated SAS programs to perform data analysis in various projects.
• Tutored graduate-undergraduate students on mathematical statistics and statistical computing methods.

Simulation Analyst, Inventory Council, GE Power System, Schenectady, NY            2001
• Simulated and analyzed the production capacity of a new GE manufacturing plant with ProModel.
• Wrote programs with VB/VBA in Excel to simplify raw material scheduling process.
• Used Microsoft Visio to design flow charts of the turbine manufacturing process.
• Developed a generic template for capacity analysis simulation with Excel Macro and ProModel, including writing the associated manual.

Academic Experience
Doctoral dissertation work                                                                          2004 - 2007
• Develop a statistical method to do cluster detection using semi-parametric density ratio model.

Master thesis work                                                                                        2002
• Used Unlabeled Data in Classification & Regression Tree and its Application in Market Segmentation.

Teaching and Research Assistantships                                                     2002 - 2007
• Taught elementary calculus for undergraduate students.
• Lectured recitation sessions, held office hour for students, graded homework.
• MATLAB programming.

Technical Skills
• Statistics: data analysis / mining / modeling,  statistical simulation / computing /
                  experiment design.
• Professional software: S-Plus/R, MATLAB, SAS, Promodel, SPSS, STATA.
• Programming: VB/VBA macros in MS Office family, C/C++, database SQL.

:: office: MTH4412    :: e-mail: wen@math.umd.edu    :: url: http://www.math.umd.edu/~wen ::