Cheng Ren

Experience

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  Neighborhood Connections

  Aug 2015 - May 2016

  Intern

  • Collect and sort the data from the grantees’ reports.• Draw the network map• Make brochures shared the information with the residents in communities.• One on one interview

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  Case Western Reserve University

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  Research Assistant - Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development

  •Maintain the Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing dataset (NEO CANDO) and Neighborhood Stabilization Team Web Application (NST) and provide data training for the students and residents.•Design the survey to gather information and feedback from residents for Community Profile Website and provide service about GIS (both online and offline map) for communities and other geographic analysis for the organizations. •Use R, Python, and ArcGIS to analyze data for research papers and generate the report. Show less

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  University of California, Berkeley

  Sept 2017 - Jun 2023

  •Graduate Student Researcher/Data Manager at Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT)•Graduate Student Researcher/Data Scientist at The Wallace Center at the School of Public Health•Graduate Student Researcher/Data Manager at Urban Displacement Project GSI for Social Science Method classes applied Python similar to Data8GSI for Theories for Multilevel Practice • Cleaned and analyzed government data from 4 departments in Guiyang via R and Python as a coder supervisor, wrangling over 1 million individuals’ information linked through 200+ tables• Assisted Guiyang city government to establish rules for collecting data and building datasetsand provided consultation on how to apply data science to social goods and related policies• Present the results and maps on Big Data Expo 2018 with more than 400 audience

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    Jun 2020 - Jun 2023

  • Graduate Student Instructor

    Aug 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Research Associate

    Sept 2017 - Aug 2019
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  D-Lab, UC Berkeley

  Nov 2019 - May 2023

  • Senior Data Science Fellow

    Nov 2020 - May 2023

  • Data Science Consultant

    Nov 2019 - May 2023
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  Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI)

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  Data Analyst

  •Modified an interactive map to explore spatial inequality of immigrant health and legal services in the bay area and will expand the map to the central valley area in CA, which will cover around 1000 clinic information.•Created an interactive map for COVID-19, health resources. https://shiny.demog.berkeley.edu/bimi/immigrantsatrisk_covid19map/•Applied Natural Language Processing to build a recommendation system to detect immigration institutes

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  University of Washington eScience Institute

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Fellow, Data Science for Social Good
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  Contra Costa County

  Nov 2022 - May 2023

  Data Scientist Intern
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  University at Albany

  Jul 2023 - now

  • Assistant Professor

    May 2024 - now

  • Lecturer (Transitioning to Assistant Professor)

    Jul 2023 - May 2024