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Hi, I am Ya Ting

Ya Ting Hu

Data & AI Consultant at Microsoft

I am an experienced Data Scientist and AI Consultant with a strong background in machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision (CV). I specialize in transforming data into actionable insights and building innovative AI solutions that drive business value. With a deep understanding of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, I have worked extensively with Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Azure Databricks to design, deploy, and scale AI models across industries. My passion lies in solving complex problems through data science, optimizing cloud infrastructures, and promoting Responsible AI practices. I am dedicated to leveraging data to help organizations improve decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and stay ahead in a data-driven world.

Skills

Experiences

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Data & AI Consultant
Microsoft

Sept 2022 - Present, Schiphol, The Netherlands

Industry Solutions is a global organization comprising over 16,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts. Together, we bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment—and cutting-edge technology—to life for our customers and partners, driving value across their digital transformation journeys.

Responsibilities:
  • Enhance customer experiences through innovative practices.
  • Translate business requirements into technology specifications for contracts and statements of work.
  • Develop high-level and detailed design documents; implement advanced solutions using the latest technologies.
  • Optimize customer data solutions and infrastructure.
  • Lead large data platform, business intelligence, and advanced analytics projects, ensuring high customer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Commit to continuous professional growth and mentor fellow consultants.

Data Scientist
Philips

Sept 2021 - Aug 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

At Philips, we strive to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation, with a goal of enhancing 2.5 billion lives annually by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.

Responsibilities:
  • Reviewed existing literature on motion-based delirium detection methods.
  • Derived features indicative of delirium using accelerometer and 3D depth camera data.
  • Benchmarked the performance of motion features across different input signals.
  • Documented findings and provided detailed reports on scientific and algorithmic methodologies.
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CRM Data-Analyst
A.S. Watson

Mar 2021 - Aug 2021, Vilvoorde, Belgium

At ASW, we aspire to be the world’s leading health, beauty, and lifestyle retailer, striving to deliver more to our customers, colleagues, and communities.

Responsibilities:
  • Supported data analysts in conducting and presenting analyses to various stakeholders.
  • Conducted introductory sessions on Tableau for new colleagues and departments.
  • Assisted in updating recurring reports and suggested improvements for report automation and process efficiency.
  • Familiarized with Adobe Campaign for customer campaign selections and learned retail research techniques, including A/B testing.

Teaching Assistant
Eindhoven University of Technology

Sep 2018 - May 2021, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborated with the instructor to teach and grade coursework for over 150 students in courses including Calculus B, Logic and Set Theory, Programming in Python, and Data Science Research Methods.
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Research Assistent
Eindhoven University of Technology

Sep 2019 - Apr 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Department of the Built Environment

Responsibilities:
  • Conducted econometric research combined with machine learning techniques using Python, R, and Stata, focusing on Real Estate Management and Development.

Education

M.Sc. in ICT Innovation (GPA 9/10)
Taken Courses
  • Data-Intensive Computing
  • Data Mining
  • Innovation Study Project
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (GPA 9/10)
Taken Courses
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Machine Learning and Engineering
  • Big Data Management
  • Foundations of Process Mining
  • Applied Statistics
  • Visual Analytics
  • Foundations of Data Mining
  • Applications of Data Science for Software Engineering
Extracurricular Activities
  • Joined Summer School Internet of Things (IoT) Platforms for Industry 4.0 at Technical University of Munich.
  • Student Representative for the EIT cohort Eindhoven 2020/21.
B.Sc. Data Science (Cum Laude)
Taken Courses
  • Multivariate Data Analysis
  • Data Structures
  • Cognitive Science
  • Design for Games and Play I
  • Mathematical Analysis 1 and 2
  • Process Theory
  • Business Analytics
  • Data Science Research Methods
  • Statistical Computing
  • Linear Optimization
  • Linear Algebra
  • Law and Data Science
Extracurricular Activities
  • Organised and promoted the Data Science Summit 2019 with 350 visitors to showcase interesting scientific research done in close collaboration with and inspired by the industry at the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI), previously known as Data Science Center Eindhoven (DSCE).

Projects

Data Mining
Data Mining
Contributor November 2021 - Present

Five small projects, namely finding textually similar documents, discovery of frequent itemsets and assocation rules, mining data streams, graph spectra, and k-way graph partitioning using JaBeJa

Steady the Flow
Steady the Flow
Contributor September 2019 - November 2019

Analysis of Den Bosch waste water treatment plant

Does Twitter Fly?
Does Twitter Fly?
Contributor April 2018 - June 2018

American Airlines Twitter team performance analysis

Visualizing Dynamic Graphs with Heat Triangles
Visualizing Dynamic Graphs with Heat Triangles
Creator February 2020 - June 2020

An overview-based interactive visualization tool for temporally long dynamic graph sequences is implemented and applied on US domestic flight data.

Business Process Intelligence 2018
Business Process Intelligence 2018
Contributor February 2019 - April 2019

The goal of this project was to predict the remaining cycle time of a request into an administrative system. Different models were designed and tested on the datasets provided by the BPI Challenges 2012 and 2019.

Pharos - Guided by Light
Pharos - Guided by Light
Contributor February 2021 - July 2021

A bracelet creating the overall festival experience by connecting to stage lighting and guiding you to the bar with shortest line.

Big Data Management
Big Data Management
Contributor April 2021 - July 2021

In this project we use the Spark platform for processing massive data and discovering minimal non-trivial functional dependencies and (soft) functional dependencies.

Data Intensive Computing
Data Intensive Computing
Contributor Augustus 2021 - October 2021

Two labs regarding HDFS, HBase, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, Structured Streaming, GraphX and project regarding real-time Bitcoin price predictions with news sentiment analysis

HoodFood by Diverse IT
HoodFood by Diverse IT
Contributor February 2019 - April 2019

HoodFood, a comparison tool which allows customers to compare prices between groceries easily, started by Diverse IT