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Graduate student at USC building practical skills

Master's student preparing for a first professional role, focused on learning and hands-on projects.

Work samples

A small portfolio of academic and personal projects completed while pursuing my master's, showing skills I am developing and the types of problems I tackle.

  • Cook County Housing Price Prediction
    Cook County Housing Price Prediction

    Analyzed 204,000+ property records and engineered predictive features from housing descriptions, building characteristics, neighborhoods, and geographic data. Built and validated linear regression pipelines, improving cross-validation RMSE by approximately 5% and evaluating prediction bias across property-price segments.

    PythonPandasScikit-learn
  • Email Spam Classification
    Email Spam Classification

    Engineered keyword, formatting, and structural email features to build a logistic regression spam classifier with 90.2% training accuracy. Evaluated model performance and classification trade-offs using cross-validation, confusion-matrix metrics, probability thresholds, and ROC analysis.

    PythonPandasScikit-learnRegex

About me

Master's student preparing for a first professional role, focused on learning and hands-on projects.

I am Dalin, a graduate student at the University of Southern California pursuing a masters degree. I am early in my career and building practical experience while exploring directions for my first professional role.

Externships

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Amazon

Experience

Economics & Macroeconomics Tutor

UC Berkeley Student Learning Center · Jan 2026 – Present

Summer Equity Researcher | Extern

Lam Research Corp · Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

Student Secretary

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science & Society · Aug 2024 – Jan 2025

Student Assistant

USAID & UC Berkeley Blum Center Program · Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

Lead Researcher | Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program

UC Berkeley · Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

Education

University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business

Master of Science in Business Analytics · Class of 2028

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. Economics (Honors), Minor in Data Science · Class of 2026

Skills

Graduate-level studyAcademic researchProject-based learningRapid skill acquisition

Cook County Housing Price Prediction

Analyzed 204,000+ property records and engineered predictive features from housing descriptions, building characteristics, neighborhoods, and geographic data. Built and validated linear regression pipelines, improving cross-validation RMSE by approximately 5% and evaluating prediction bias across property-price segments.

PythonPandasScikit-learn
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Email Spam Classification

Engineered keyword, formatting, and structural email features to build a logistic regression spam classifier with 90.2% training accuracy. Evaluated model performance and classification trade-offs using cross-validation, confusion-matrix metrics, probability thresholds, and ROC analysis.

PythonPandasScikit-learnRegex
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San Francisco Food Safety Analysis

Analyzed 32,000+ San Francisco restaurant and inspection records by cleaning location data, identifying anomalies, visualizing patterns, and generating geographic restaurant recommendations.

PythonPandasNumPyMatplotlib
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