Sue Kim Resume

Seung Hye (Sue) Kim
Phone: (832) 242 - 8923 • Email: ------------

EDUCATION
Rice University, Houston, TX May 2020
- B.A. in Computer Science
- B.A. in Statistics
Relevant Coursework
Compiler Construction, Object-Oriented Programming and Design, Computer Systems, Database Systems, Statistical Machine Learning, Quant Financial Analytics, Probability, Linear Regression

WORK EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Researcher February 2019 – May 2020
DEEPS, Rice University Houston, TX
- Analyzed a set of 6 interrelated climate models to interpolate the dynamics and sensitivity of tropical African temperature changes from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present, using Python and Fortran
- Coauthored an upcoming publication on Mid-Holocene temperatures in Africa

Teaching Assistant January 2019 – December 2019
Statistics in Data Science, Rice University Houston, TX
- Developed and taught weekly lesson plans to teach the programming language R as well as basic statistics concepts

Engineering Intern June 2018 – August 2018, June 2019 – August 2019
Constellation, Exelon Houston, TX
- Analyzed customer usage data in Texas, Oregon, California, and Connecticut to reclaim over $2,000,000 of revenue for a Fortune 100 company, using Excel VBA, SQL Server and SQL Developer
- Internalized unfamiliar company software to write documentation for the software and any errors found

Research Assistant October 2017 – May 2018
Soil Value Exchange, Rice University Houston, TX
- Led a team with Groundwater Services Inc. on behalf of the Soil Value Exchange to develop an innovative carbon sampling protocol for the Leo and Pittman ranches in Texas using Excel and GIS
- Innovated solutions to emerging technical problems as the consulting statistician for the research team

PROJECTS
Cross-Community Comparison of Fire and EMS, Rice University/Intterra January 2020 – May 2020
- Developed a customizable clustering tool that can be used to classify fire departments and can be re-run with new or hypothetical department profiles using R and Python
- Produced visualizations for department comparison that are interpretable to firefighters as a target audience

Web Proxy, Rice University April 2019
- Wrote a concurrent web proxy that uses threads to deal with multiple clients using C
- Gained experience in network programming, the HTTP protocol, concurrency, and synchronization

Part of Speech Tagging, Rice University April 2018 – May 2018
- Implemented the Viterbi Algorithm in statistical modeling for natural language processing using Python

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Java • Python • R • C • Fortran • Matlab • SQL