Raychel Sun

Instructor and Research Assistant

University of Florida•  August 2021 - Present•  Gainesville, FL

- Developed multilevel, Bayesian, time series, multinomial, proportional hazards, logistic, random forest, sentiment, etc. models to analyze trade, labor, regime, policy text data for multiple inter-disciplinary projects using Python and R. - Instructed Political Data Analysis and Introduction to International Relations, achieving over 97% positive feedback.

Data and Policy Analyst

Institute of Public Policy of SCUT•  May 2019 - June 2020•  Guangzhou, PRC

- Analyzed user behavior and regulatory compliance of cross-border transactions for ByteDance and Tencent. - Led a policy research project for the Guangzhou City Incubator in technology industry.

Head of Data & Communication

Dream Building Service Association•  May 2017 - February 2020•  Nairobi, Kenya

- Conducted surveys, interviews, and fieldwork in Kenya to collect unstructured residential data in ghetto areas. - Analyzed the structured data using Excel to facilitate school building projects and crowdfunding campaigns.

Data Scientist Intern

Spark Blockchain Incubator•  January 2019 - April 2019•  Boston, MA

- Conducted data analysis using SQL to identify user behavior patterns to help engineering teams increase user retention.