Meet Shuran Yao – Statistics Summer Scholarship recipient

This summer, we have a number of fantastic students who received a Department of Statistics scholarship to work on fascinating projects with our staff members. We’ll be profiling them here on Stats Chat and we’d love to hear your feedback on their projects!

Shuran is working with Ilze Ziedins, Alan Lee and Geoffrey Pritchard on a research project entitled ‘Statistical assessment of telecommunications network performance metrics.’

Shuran explains:

“My summer research with Harmonic is more like an internship.

Harmonic provides smart solutions using advanced analytics tool R to energy sectors, telecommunications and also agriculture industries.

One of the projects I am involved in is about analysis of social networks to deliver customer insight. I will also be working on checking as well as editing the R training manual by adding some finance related cases.

More about Shuran:

“My primary major is Quantitative Finance. I’m also doing a second major in Statistics. Statistics is a really useful tool that is widely applied in various industries like actuarial science, finance, and telecommunications. The beauty is that it can explore and extract information from piles of numbers.”