Qianyi Shi

Experience

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  University of Iowa

  Aug 2014 - May 2021

  • Demonstrated statistical software, e.g., Stata, commands for statistical analysis and answered student questions.• Instructed, evaluated, and communicated feedback on students’ project proposals regarding research design, data retrieval, data management, statistical commands, and data interpretation.• Performed guest lectures on key statistical software commands and analysis.• Prepare lesson plans and organize materials to teach weekly introductory level or intermediate level sociology courses for 70-100 undergraduates each.• Collaborate with Profession and other TAs on establishing learning objectives and grading policies for the courses. Show less • Assisted with literature reviews, compiling data from multiple sources, and completing sophisticated statistical analysis, including hierarchical models for continuous, binary, and ordinal dependent variables of survey data.• Created, organized, maintained, and archived extensive documentation for datasets, statistical analyses, and results.• Published results in Social Forces, one of the top peer-reviewed journals in sociology.• Presented research findings in American Sociological Association 2019 conference. Show less

  • Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2012 - May 2021

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

  • Master’s Thesis

    Aug 2014 - May 2016
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  University of Iowa Public Policy Center

  May 2016 - Dec 2018

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Assisted the primary investigator and other team members with research design, explored and determined appropriate analysis techniques, and provided the undergraduate and graduate research assistants with data analysis training in a collaborative team setting.• Conducted t-tests, ANOVA, and factor analysis. Generated data visualizations using Stata. • Created and maintained extensive documentation for datasets, statistical analyses, and results.• Produced evaluation reports on the Restorative Justice, Implicit Bias, and Student Experiences of School Climate in The Iowa City Community School District, which have been used for the school district’s DEI training. Show less

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  University of Iowa

  Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

  Researcher

  • Downloaded millions of fine-grained participation records from Meetup.com and generated numerous large databases for analysis in Python. • Conducted network analysis, community detection, community network evolution visualization, fixed effects modeling, random effects modeling, propensity score matching, and other matching methods in Python and R using the University of Iowa Argon High Performance Computing Cluster.• Utilized online and offline resources to learn software, such as Python and R, and statistical models and techniques, such as propensity score matching.• Presented findings in 2021 American Sociological Association and 2021 Midwest Sociology Society conferences. Show less

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  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  Jan 2022 - now

  Biostatistician
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  University of Iowa Health Care - Department of Internal Medicine

  Jan 2022 - now

  Biostatistician/Statistician