Dr. Lu Xiong (Sean)

Education

2017 - 2018, Postdoctoral Research Training, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Science, Middle Tennessee State University.

2014, Master of Science, Mathematics, Middle Tennessee State University.

2010, Bachelor of Science, Management Information System, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Work Experience

August 2018 - Present, Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Murfreesboro, TN, United States of America.

1. Conduct research in Computational Actuarial Science, and advise students to do researches in the related area.

2. Teach courses in Actuarial Science, Math, Computational Science and related data science.

October 2017 - July 2018, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.

Research in Bioinformatics and Computational Metabolomics, including responsibilities of coordinating research projects, analysis, and presentation of scientific data. Use Jupyter Notebook, Python/R and software in Mass Spectrometry to process and analyze metabolomics and clinical data. Algorithms used include principal component analysis (PCA), Bayesian inference, Spearman's rank correlation, t-test, regression. Python/R packages used include pandas, scikit-learn, rpy2, Bioconductor. Building the server version of Mummichog, a free Python program for analyzing data from high throughput, untargeted metabolomics, using Ubuntu Server, Apache2, Flask, WSGI. Building a new online database in Metabolomics for research community to use, to accelerate the pace of medical discovery. Use Docker Container, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google App Engine to develop more powerful software in Bioinformatics.

April 2017 - September 2017, Business/Private, Data Analyst, ATATA, Nashville, TN, United States of America.

1. Work closely and collaborate with products owners, software developers, and designers to create data- driven applications.

2. Perform research, data collection, statistical data analysis on sets of data, including sets of data that are financially driven.

3. Use Python, R, Matlab or other similar technologies to run analysis on data collected.

4. Build and maintain predictive analytics models by using modern software and technologies to create recommendation results for our customers, such as recommended stock picks for a stock market, the optimal flow of tasks in a project, or suggesting products to add to a shopping cart.

5. Generate reports about the data analysis to stakeholders and make recommendations accordingly.

January 2015 - March 2017, Business/Private, Actuarial Analyst, SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group, Nashville, TN, United States of America.

1. Work with brokers, underwriters to support the business decision using analytics.

2. Complete actuarial projects in Workers Comp, General Liability, Product Liability, Auto Liability,

Property Liability and Medical Malpractice. Perform actuarial analysis for IBNR, Loss Forecasting, Reserve Analysis, Confidence Interval Analysis etc.

3. Develop Workers Compensation Early Severity Prediction (WorkCompESP) model.

4. Develop LORAN (Loss Run Analytics), a graphical data representation analytical tool for the insurance industry.

5. Use PHP+MySQL, JavaScript, HTML+CSS and WAMP to help web development of risk66.com, SIGMA's new data analytical website.

6. Supervised an intern to start his research project in SIGMA. Now he is continuing that project in AAA headquarter.

January 2015 - May 2015,  Adjunct Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Murfreesboro, TN, United States of America. 

1. Taught Actuarial Science course (Exam P – Probability) ACSI 4140/5140 Mathematical Foundations of Actuarial Science for both graduate and undergraduate students.

September 1, 2010 - December 12, 2014, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University, Mathematical Sciences, Murfreesboro, TN, United States of America.

1. Taught College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences (MATH-1630). Start from Fall 2013, taught 2 sessions per semester. Each session has around 25 students.

2. Tutor in Math Lab for Statistics and Calculus.

3. Grade homework for professors in Linear Algebra, Calculus.

April 2014 - November 2014, Business/Private, Research Internship, SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group, Nashville, TN, United States of America.

1. Help implement actuarial consulting projects.

2. Research in Captive insurance company financial health rating modeling.

3. Research in Strategic Risk Analysis. Build a Moto Carlo simulation programming using MATLAB+VBA+Excel.