Y.C. Fang

204 E. Norwich Ave #D
Columbus, OH 43201

(614)294-3956
[email protected]


Objective

Search for an industrial job and/or a research-oriented career with focuses on statistical analysis and data mining

 

 

 

 

Education

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
PhD candidate, Environmental Science Graduate Program, 1998 –

 

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Department of Statistics

Master of Applied Statistics, June 1998

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, 1991 -1995

 

 

Research Interests

Statistical Analysis; Data Mining; Contaminant Hydrogeology; Groundwater Modeling; Geostatistics; Actuary

 

 

Experiences

1998 – present

 

Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University
Hydrogeology Lab, Department of Geology

3-D in-situ destruction of TCE (Trichloroethylene) by flood of MnO4 (Potassium Permanganate)

Monitoring scheme of groundwater contamination by measurement of electrical conductivity

 

 

Data mining techniques applied in the discovery of science development and impact

 

 

Textual data mining techniques and statistical analysis

Building data warehouse of text documents using MySQL combined with citation data information

 

Citation data analysis

Multimedia data mining and applications in scientific research

 

 

1997 - 1998


 

Graduate Research Assistant, The Ohio State University, Department of Internal Medicine

CL-HTTP (CommonLisp-HTTP) programming

Developing on-line tutorial program for dental students

Information system design/maintenances

 

 

Conferences

Y.C. Fang, F. W. Schwartz, and M. Ibaraki "Analysis of Research Impact in Hydrology and Ground-Water Modeling", MODFLOW 2001 and OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS Conference, September 11-14, 2001, Golden, Colorado, USA

 

Y.C. Fang, F. W. Schwartz, and S. Parthasarathy "Data Mining in Geoscience Research", GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition - 2001, November 1–10, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Y.C. Fang, S. Parthasarathy, and F. Schwartz "Using Clustering to Boost Text Classification", Workshop on Text Mining (TextDM'2001), IEEE ICDM-2001, The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 29, 2001, San Jose, California, USA

 

Y.C. Fang, R.A. Schincariol, F.W. Schwartz and Y. Seol "Multimedia Data Mining Applied to Site Investigation", Third International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, May 20-23, 2002, Monterey, California, USA

 

F.W. Schwartz, Y.C. Fang “Dare to be Different - Pat Domenico Showed us How!”, GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition – 2002, October 27–30, 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA

 

F.W. Schwartz, Y.C Fang “Data Fusion for the Discovery of Scientific Impacts in the Hydrologic Research”, AGU 2002 Fall Meeting, 6-10 December 2002, San Francisco, California, USA

 

F.W. Schwartz, G. Allen, Y.C. Fang, M. Ibaraki 2003 “Opportunities and Challenges in Research on Ground-water Modeling”, MODFLOW and More 2003: Understanding through Modeling conference, September 17-19, 2003, Golden, Colorado, USA

Publications

Y.C. Fang, F. W. Schwartz, and M. Ibaraki "Analysis of Research Impact in Hydrology and Ground-Water Modeling", proceedings of MODFLOW 2001 and OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS Conference, Vol.I, p4. 2001

 

Y.C. Fang, F. W. Schwartz, and S. Parthasarathy "Data Mining in Geoscience Research", Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society, Vol.32, pp75-80. 2001

Y.C. Fang, S. Parthasarathy, and F. Schwartz "Using Clustering to Boost Text Classification", Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM-2001, The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2001 (url: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/506760.html)

Y.C. Fang, R.A. Schincariol, F.W. Schwartz and Y. Seol "Multimedia Data Mining Applied to Site Investigation", CD-ROM Series of the Third International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Battelle Press, 2002

 

F.W. Schwartz, Y.C. Fang, and M. Ibaraki, 2002 “Hydrogeological Research Redux: Response to Critics” Ground Water 40, no.3: 317-319

 

E.S Lee, Y. Seol, Y.C. Fang, and F.W. Schwartz, 2003 “Destruction Efficiencies and Dynamics of Reaction Fronts Associated with the Permanganate Oxidation of Trichloroethylene”, Environ. Sci. & Technol

F.W. Schwartz, G. Allen, Y.C. Fang, M. Ibaraki 2003 “Opportunities and Challenges in Research on Ground-water Modeling”, proceedings of MODFLOW and More 2003: Understanding through Modeling conference, 2003 (to appear)

Skills

Programming languages (BASIC, FORTRAN, HTML, CommonLisp,  Perl, PHP, Python, MySQL), numerical analysis (FDM, FEM), familiar with analytical instruments (GC, UV-vis, HPLC, etc.), statistics packages, network configurations, Linux/Unix

Exams and Certifications

Society of Actuaries (SOA) Course 1 Exam (Pass; 8 out of 10)

Activities

AGU student membership