HUITING SU

(765)337-0031 • su149@purdue.edu • https://github.com/HuitingSu

120 South Street Apt.517 • West Lafayette, IN 47906

EDUCATION
Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering Expected Graduation: June 2018
Master of Science (Thesis) in Operations Research GPA: 3.71/4.0
Coursework Statistical Inference, Statistical Computing, Nonlinear Optimization, Nature-Inspired Algorithms,
Dynamic Optimization, Stochastic Processes, Linear Programming, Advanced Simulation Analysis
Certificates Statistical Learning, Practical Machine Learning, Regression Models, Statistical Inference,
Reproducible Research, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Cleaning, R Programming, MySQL
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Mechanical Engineering July 2016
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.65/4.0 (Ranking: 5/56)
Thesis: Energy saving in manufacturing flow lines: Random Search Algorithms for parameters optimization

TECHNICAL SKILLS
R(dplyr, ggplot2, Caret), Python(Pandas, NumPy), C++/C, MATLAB, MySQL, VBA, C#, Git, LATEX

EXPERIENCE
Smart Design Lab, West Lafayette, IN Jan 2017 - present
Research Assistant Advisor: Hong Wan
• Constructed optimal design with maximal probability of correct selection of LASSO using gradient method
• Implemented self-voting LASSO to build sparse model and select the tuning parameter λ automatically
• Achieved result highly consistent with factorial design experiment, and extended to multi-task LASSO

Operations Research Lab, Shanghai, China May 2015 - Nov 2016

Student Researcher Advisor: Andrea Matta
• Developed an intelligent Nested Partition Algorithm, which can focus computational effort on promising solutions
• Incorporated Optimal Computing Budget Allocation and Ordinal Optimization to statistically classify solutions
• Saved 80% of running time compared to OptQuest (commercial software), without compromising solution quality

PUBLICATION & AWARDS

• Su H, Frigerio N, Matta A. Energy Saving Opportunities and Value of Information: A Trade-off in a Production
Line[J]. Procedia CIRP, 2016, 48: 301-306.
• Su H, Dadi X, Hong W. Optimal Supersaturated Design via LASSO (Draft)
• Si Yuan Research Innovation Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2015
• Sencond Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP) - Advanced Group 2010

PROJECTS & INTERNSHIP

Movement Classification of Wearable Device Fall 2017
• Implemented and tuned Artificial Neural Network to classify five different gestures given time series data
• Built classification models using Classification Trees, Boosting, and Random Forest with cross validation
• Achieved accuracy of 0.855 for gesture recognition and 0.99 for movement classification
Nonlinear Optimization of Global Positioning System Spring 2017
• Built nonlinear optimization model to calculate the position of GPS receiver using data sent from 6 satellites
• Implemented 8 algorithms including Newton’s Line Search, quasi-Newton method and Steepest Descent to solve
• Achieved high accuracy of receiver position within 3 meters, and time efficiency within 2 seconds

Quality Engineer Intern, Bacardi Limited, Shanghai, China Summer 2015

• Analyzed production quality level using quality tools: statistics, control charts, process capability ratio
• Developed integrated statistical analyzing template for quality control