Daniel Amin
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Daniel Amin

DANIEL AMIN
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Education
JANUARY 2019 - PRESENT
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DATA SCIENCE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK – GRADUATE CENTER
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics
Cumulative GPA 3.66
AUGUST 2014 - MAY 2018
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PHYSICS, DORDT COLLEGE, SIOUX CENTER, IA
Minor in Computer Science
Cumulative GPA 3.46
Dordt College Presidential Scholarship Recipient for 4 years

SKILLS
• Proficient in Python Programming, Java, R, VBA
• Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Analysis, Deep Learning
• Linux Experience • Scikit-Learn, Keras (Tensorflow), Numpy, Pandas
• Music Success Predictor Modeling
• Fluid Dynamics Research
• Native Speaker in Bahasa Indonesia
PROJECTS
Music Success Predictor
• Used Kaggle’s Spotify Dataset for audio features
• Used PCA, multiple modeling tools (Random Forest, XGB, CNN) to predict popularity scale.
• Achieved 72% accuracy on 3 label predictions of test set
• Achieved 276.59 MSE on regression with CNN (scale is 1-100)

Hacker News Score Predictor
• Pulled up dataset from Google BigQuery’s Public Dataset: HackerNews
• Cleaned dataset using python, tokenized, lemmatized, NLP pre-processed strings in articles
• Trained Word2Vec, text-optimized CNN, ensembled training features to construct predictor model
• Achieved 524.76 MSE (score scale is 0-4399)

Experience
AUGUST 2015 – MAY 2018
PHYSICS TEACHING ASSISTANT, DORDT COLLEGE, SIOUX CENTER, IA
Assisted professors in introductory physics courses as lab assistant; setup lab equipment, helped students in conducting experiments; grade students’ assignments.



INTERESTS
• Theoretical physics
• High level piano performer, former member of Dordt College and South Dakota State Jazz Bands
• Proficient Violin player, former member of Dordt College Orchestra and Northwest Iowa Symphony