Ellen in Seattle. Taken with Xiaonan & Jiaxin, Jan 2024.
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Hi, I am Yilun (Ellen) Xing,
a PhD candidate in Industrial & Systems Engineering, and an MS student in Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, planning to get both degrees in June 2024.
I have been working as a research assistant in the Human Factors and Statistical Modeling (HFSM) Lab with Prof. Linda Boyle (recently got a promotion at NYU) since Autumn 2019.
Before joining HFSM, I worked as a research assistant in the Traffic Safety Research Group advised by Prof. Xuesong Wang from 2016-2019.
I have a strong passion for investigating, analyzing, and evaluating the issues in interface/system designs to help improve users' wellbeing, especially drivers.
Interests
Driver Behavior & Safety, Autonomous Driving, User Experience Research, Machine Learning.
Technical Skills
Coding & Data Related: R, Python (TensorFlow, SimPy), MATLAB, MySQL, C++, SAS
Traffic Simulation: MiniSim, VISSIM, VISUM.
Other: web app (JavaScript, HTML, Firebase), ArcGIS
Education
Ph.D. student in Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 2019-present.
MS in Statistics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 2022-present
MS & BS in Transportation Engineering
Tongji University, Shanghai, China | 2012-2019.
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