Jae Ho Chang

Ph.D. Student

The Ohio State University

Biography

I earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Applied Statistics at Konkuk University under the supervision of professor Kyusang Yu. My ultimate professional goal is to be a scholar developing statistical methodologies for biomedicine.

Interests

High-dimensional data analysis

Education

Statistics Ph.D. Student, 2021 -- Present
The Ohio State University
MA in Applied Statistics, 2018
Konkuk University
BA in Applied Statistics, 2012
Konkuk University

Skills

Python

Git

Bash

docker

HTML

sass

Markdown

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Associate

Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University

Aug 2021 – Present Columbus, OH, USA

Grading - STAT 3201, 3450
Recitation - STAT 1350
Tutoring

Part-time Lecturer

Department of Human Resources, GS Engineering & Construction

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020 Seoul, South Korea

Elementary statistics: population, parameters, random variables, discrete and continuous types, expectation, sample distribution, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regressions
SPSS tutorials and practices

Teaching Assistant

Department of Applied Statistics, Konkuk University

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 Seoul, South Korea

Computer programming:

Undergraduate course - Regressions Analysis
Graduate course - Theory of Likelihood Functions, Skew Normal and Related Distribution Families, Nonparametric Function Estimation

Quizz marking:

Undergraduate Mathematical Statistics

Work Experience

ML Engineer

Real Data

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 Seoul, South Korea

Computer vision project:

Object detection
Image augmentation and denoising

Freelancer

May 2020 – Oct 2020 Seoul, South Korea

Tutoring:

Statistics and theories for graduate students
Tutorials for using statistical softwares and programming languages

Statistical Consulting:

(2020). Analysis of Performance Factors of KLPGA and LPGA Players, and Prediction of Winners. Journal of the Korean society for Wellness.
(2020). The Longitudinal Analysis of the Performance Factors Affecting the Korean Ladies Professional Golfer’s Prize Money: Using Data from 2010 to 2019. Journal of Golf Studies.
(2020). A Case Study on Villagers’ Participation and Project Achievement in Rural Development. Journal Of The Korean Society Of Rural Planning.

Assistant Researcher

SK C&C X Korea University Medical Center

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 Seoul, South Korea

Contributed to developing antibiotics recommendation system for the antibiotics stewardship:

Created predictive models for two major types of multi–drug resistant(MDR) diseases
Conducted data manipulation and formed data mart
Fitted classification models to predict the risk of each patient’s MDR type
Built an API to serve predictive models to the client

Head research assistant

Konkuk University

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 Seoul, South Korea

Worked as the head research assistant at the Statistical Consulting Office:

Communication, management, data analysis, final reporting

Key works:

A Meta_Analysis of the Stress Reaction Effect of Aromatherapy (Doctoral thesis in Art & Design at Konkuk University, 2018)
A survey on the satisfaction of Korean traditional dessert class (Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2018)
Several master’s theses