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Cindy Weng is an Advanced Analytics Associate at Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics in Chicago. At Deloitte, she has built predictive models for various clients across multiple industries, particularly in the areas of enterprise fraud management and safety and quality analytics. She has applied network/link analysis to anti-fraud projects and taught the methods to a large group...

Cindy Weng is an Advanced Analytics Associate at Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics in Chicago. At Deloitte, she has built predictive models for various clients across multiple industries, particularly in the areas of enterprise fraud management and safety and quality analytics. She has applied network/link analysis to anti-fraud projects and taught the methods to a large group of Advisory Analytics employees at Deloitte. She is currently working on a proactive sensing capability to detect safety concerns for a large automotive manufacturer in Detroit.

Cindy received her Master's Degree in Media, Technology and Society from Northwestern University in 2014, where she research team formation and turnover by using multilevel methods on massive online datasets. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in Information Systems in 2012. Her technical expertise background is in R, python, and predictive modeling.

In the summer of 2013, Cindy worked at IBM Research in Cambridge, MA on a project studying how different levels of managers use online enterprise networks. Her interest in managerial and corporate networks continues and she currently is researching what factors affect tie formation in corporate communities and teams. She presented a study on multilevel analysis of corporate turnover at the INSNA Sunbelt Conference 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.

Previously, Cindy worked for one of the top three social game developers in the world, Wooga GmbH, as a product and operations management intern. She was also briefly the community strategist for a big data and analytics website called SmartData Collective.

Specialties: advanced analytics, predictive modeling, big data, network analysis, big data, statistical modelingAdvanced Analytics Associate @ - Building predictive models to identify fraudulent behavior across multiple industries and firms

- Leveraging big data, predictive analytics, and advanced technologies to improve safety and recall processes at a global automotive manufacturer From October 2014 to Present (11 months) PhD Researcher - SONIC Lab @ - Spearheaded and managed multiple projects utilizing advanced network analysis in order to analyze team formation processes

- Led study on massive online networks to understand individual and group dynamics, particularly patterns of user turnover

- Collaborated step-by-step with developers to build team assembly software used across the nation From September 2012 to September 2014 (2 years 1 month) Evanston, ILPart-time Analyst @ - Applied social network analysis to generate customer insights based on large organizational datasets

- Developed advanced metrics used to identify important influencers and key players for a large energy corporation

- Worked closely with consultants and project management to create client-focused solutions From 2014 to 2014 (less than a year) Chicago, ILResearch Intern @ - Built logistic regression and Monte Carlo simulation models estimating multilevel effects on online enterprise social media usage, individual and team performance, and relationships among managers and non-managers within IBM

- Created interactive network visualizations to identify key players in across teams and departments From July 2013 to September 2013 (3 months) Greater Boston AreaDigital Community Strategist - SmartData Collective @ Original content and content strategy:

• Interview with thought leaders

• Cover big data events and conferences

• Write marketing material for SmartData including webinar copy

• Provide original ideas for webinars and whitepapers

• Suggest and connect marketing team with panelists for webinars

• Moderate webinars

Bloggers:

• Recruit bloggers & thought leaders on a regular basis

• Manage & recruit for a featured, exclusive bloggers program

• Manage the board, organizing board calls

• Write monthly blogger newsletters From March 2013 to July 2013 (5 months) Research Assistant @ - Employed learning analytics to identify factors affecting users’ active participation and group dynamics in online communities

- Modeled questioning and answering behavior across 80 different sites, and exposed patterns that explain how users learn to ask better questions in order to receive better answers From April 2012 to September 2012 (6 months) Product Management Intern/Freelancer @ - Created and managed product specifications for innovative social media applications

- Mined and analyzed large-scale data from over 7 million users by applying graphical and statistical models

- Analyzed performance metrics and key performance indicators using A/B testing to improve monetization From June 2011 to December 2011 (7 months) Berlin, GermanyGuest Author @ Interviewed top gaming CEOs (most notably Mark Pincus of Zynga) and wrote a contemporary analysis series on social and viral gaming From May 2009 to August 2009 (4 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaMaster's degree, Media, Technology, and Society @ Northwestern University From 2012 to 2014 Bachelor of Science, Information Systems @ University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business From 2008 to 2012 Bachelor of Science, Information Systems @ Copenhagen Business School From 2011 to 2011 Cindy Weng is skilled in: Social Networking, Social Network Analysis, Big Data, Blogging, Internet Trends, MySQL, Data Visualization, R, SPSS, Python, User Experience, Facebook, Analytics, Stata, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Office, Social Games, Relational Databases, Photoshop, Chinese, French, HTML, Social Media, Agent-based Modeling, Statistical Modeling, Analysis, Data Mining, Research, Data Analysis, Product Management