Ethan Tran

Ethan Tran

Data Science Academy Leader

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    DS @ UCI

  • Education

    • University of California, Riverside

      2022 - 2024
    • UC Irvine

      2024 - 2026
      Bachelor's degree Data Science
    • Fountain Valley High School

      2018 - 2022
      High School Diploma
  • Experience

    • University of California, Riverside

      Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
      Data Science Academy Leader

      - Instructed over 200 middle and high school students in data science fundamentals, fostering early interest in STEM fields.- Designed and adapted curriculum covering Python programming, data cleaning, visualization, and machine learning using Google Colab.- Mentored students in developing mini-projects, enhancing their practical understanding of data science concepts.

    • Highlander Statistics Society

      May 2023 - Sept 2024
      President

      - Supervised plans for general meetings and workshops relating to data science and statistics topics- Organized teams of statistics and data science students to send to UCLA for ASA DataFest.

    • ACM@UCR

      Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
      Alumni Chair

      Alumni Chair for ACM at UCR

    • Ballard Labs

      Oct 2023 - Sept 2024
      Research Assistant - Data Analyst

      - Analyzed fMRI data to investigate the neural basis of decision-making.- Conducted data preprocessing and ROI selection using FSL and Python.- Developed statistical models and applied contrasts and t-contrasts, resulting in the identification of key activation patterns.- Visualized findings through statistical parametric maps and ROI plots, creating insights for the research team.

    • AI Student Collective

      Jan 2024 - Sept 2024
      Project Manager

      - Led development of an 8-week workshop series on recommender systems, with participants gaining hands-on experience in collaborative, content-based, and hybrid filtering.- Organized events, fostering industry connections and innovation in AI.

    • Crawlbee

      Jun 2024 - Sept 2024
      Research Fellow

      - Led the development of an open-source dashboard for the company CrawlBee to visualize real-time crawl status metrics for managing crawl health across a large-scale AWS EC2 server cluster- Collaborated with co-founders to ensure project met business needs and technical requirements- Designed scalable back-end server and database architecture to handle over 100 million monthly crawls- Exceeded performance requirements by 70% by developing an HTTP web server and REST APIs inJavaScript/Node.js to handle large volumes of data to a MySQL database- Conducted comprehensive performance testing of REST API endpoints with Postman and Grafana k6, achieving an average latency of 133 ms while simulating high traffic scenarios among the EC2 server- Implemented a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to automatically build and run Docker containers, deploy the server, and execute performance tests to ensure system performance in a controlled environment- Deployed the Express.js server and MySQL database on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance to ensure scalability Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications