Han (Althea) Yang

Althea has an outstanding academic background with strong technical proficiencies in data modelling and risk analytics. She is highly motivated, enthusiastic, and possesses exceptional interpersonal skills cultivated from work and volunteer experience. Additionally, Althea has developed great time management with a proven ability to work under pressure to meet timelines.

Experience

Simon Fraser University, B.C.
Researcher, May 2022 - Aug. 2022

• Participated in the Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) program & granted a VPR USRA Science Award.
• Studied the patterns in human mortality tables from different countries from data gathering, data cleaning, to modelling.
• Invented ways of predictive analysis in mortality rates by modifying life tables.
• Fine-tuned 30 different machine learning models & compared prediction results.

Guolian Securities, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Actuarial Intern, May 2021 - Jul. 2021

• Designed & reviewed contracts for multiple insurance products.
• Studied & proposed DRG & DIP health insurance reform.
• Gathered data & refined historical insurance pricing models & developed statistical product models using VBA & R.
• Collaborated with Strategic Planning & Legal.

Project: Life Insurance Analysis [individual]
Simon Fraser University, Aug. 2023

• Calculated premiums for insureds based on company’s requirements of loss reserves.
• Used Python to simulate survival rates of insureds with different mortality rates.
• Estimated benefit reserves & profits at month-end using Excel & VBA.
• Suggested investments by plotting efficient frontier of four securities.

Skills

• Technical: R
• Python
• MATLAB
• VBA
• LaTeX
• AXIS
• Microsoft 365

Professional Certificates & Awards

• Society of Actuaries
  • P (Probability)
  • FM (Financial Mathematics)
  • VEE: Economics
  • VEE: Accounting & Finance
  • VEE: Mathematical Statistics
• President’s & Dean’s Honour Roll: 2021; 2022
• Open Scholarship: 2022