Phuc Vu

Phuc Vu

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    PhD student in Biostatistics at Harvard

  • Education

    • New York University

      2022 - 2024
      Master of Public Health - MPH Biostatistics
    • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

      2024 - 2029
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biostatisitcs
    • Le Hong Phong High School For The Gifted, HCMC, Vietnam

      2014 - 2017
      High School Diploma Math
    • University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City

      2017 - 2022
  • Experience

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Administration UMP

      Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
      Research Assistant

      • Instructed a maximum of 10 undergraduate students in various data analytics and machine learning libraries, including Scikit-learn, Pandas, and Matplotlib• Tokenized over 3000 articles into a bag-of-worlds model and fitted it into a Naive Bayes model to assist in systematic reviews of Molnupiravir in Covid outpatients • Utilized Pandas and Regular Expression to extract features from more than 100,000 patients’ records• Constructed a Linear Regression model to forecast treatment expenditures for individuals with hypertension, achieving a testing accuracy rate of 95%• Accelerated analysis time by 80% through automation of data visualization using Matplotlib and Seaborn, data cleaning and manipulation via Pandas, and hypothesis testing (including A/B testing, t-tests, and ANOVA) Show less

    • NYU School of Global Public Health

      Dec 2022 - Jun 2023
      Graduate Research Assistant

      • Improved efficiency of a new multiple testing procedure simulation in R with a 30% reduction in running time• Enhanced simulation design by introducing four novel features, namely correlation among test statistics, random covariance matrix generation, inclusion of partial correlation, and family-wise error rate calculation• Employed ggplot2's heatmaps to effectively convey findings to supervisor

    • Analysis Group

      Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
      Healthcare Analyst

      • Created analysis pipeline in SAS and R to analyze 2 billion rows of MarketScan data and generate baseline characteristics, healthcare resource use, and cost summary statistics• Performed literature review for ad-hoc questions in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)• Added features and documented internal R functions for propensity score matching and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW)• Communicated and summarized scientific findings through study reports and manuscripts Show less

    • NYU School of Global Public Health

      Sept 2023 - now
      Course Assistant in Biostatistics
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