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Yanru Lu

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Berlin

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My Portfolio Highlights

My New Workbook

Project: Exploring London's Travel Network

My New Workbook

Project: Exploring London's Travel Network

Data juggler, effortlessly balancing variables to unlock insights.

My Work

Take a look at my latest work.

DataLab

Project: Analyzing Electric Vehicle Charging Habits

DataLab

Project: Analyze International Debt Statistics

DataLab

Project: Analyzing and Formatting PostgreSQL Sales Data

DataLab

Project: Factors that Fuel Student Performance

DataLab

Project: Analyzing Industry Carbon Emissions

DataLab

Project: Analyzing Motorcycle Part Sales

DataLab

Project: Exploring Trends in American Baby Names

DataLab

Project: Analyzing Students' Mental Health

DataLab

Extended Project: Analyzing Motorcycle Part Sales

DataLab

Project: When Was the Golden Era of Video Games?

DataLab

Project: Producing Soccer Insights for a Sports Media Agency

DataLab

Project: Impact Analysis of GoodThought NGO Initiatives

DataLab

Project: Exploring London's Travel Network

DataLab

Project: Uncovering the World's Oldest Businesses

DataLab

Project: Analyzing Electric Vehicle Charging Habits

DataCamp Course Completion

Take a look at all the courses I’ve completed on DataCamp.

Courses

Introduction to SQL
Intermediate SQL
Joining Data in SQL
Data Manipulation in SQL

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | May 2023 - Present

Linguistic Researcher

- Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1412 "Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation" - Quickly analyze complex information, summarize key conclusions or recommendations, and evaluate information from diverse perspectives. - Collect, annotate and analyze language data to develop 3 corpora (50,000-300,000 tokens). - Conceptualized and conducted 5 experiments (A/B testing, factorial design, 40-50 participants/300-600 data points per test). - Statistical analysis and visualization of experiment data with R (linear/logistic regression, mixed-effects models). - Organize online and in-person workshops. - Write project proposals and reports, manage research grants. - Published findings in 4 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, presented at 6 international conferences.
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Language Science Press | Jan 2022 - Apr 2023

Junior Publication Manager

- Managed and implemented 24 book projects. - Communicated with stakeholders and external providers. - Typeset layout with LaTeX, prepared manuscripts for printing and digital publication. - Managed the volunteer proofreaders pool. - Created and maintained online catalogs. - Documented, adapted and further developed book template and format converting software (LaTeX, Python, Git).

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Apr 2019 - May 2021

Student Research Assistant

- Optimized the process of data collection, preparation of experiment materials and recruitment of test participants. - Prepared experiment materials, including participation agreements, instructional texts, visual and audio stimuli, as well as remunerations. - Automated cropping and converting audio files with Praat and Python. - Recruited test participants (Clickworker, LingEx). - Programmed online experiments (PCIbex). - Cleaned, annotated and evaluated experiment data (Excel, R). - Regularly updated project website and set up event homepage with Plone.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

Social Media Intern

- Managed the WeChat channel "Research in Germany". - Answered inquiries and comments. - Wrote, translated (EN/DE>CN), edited and uploaded 109 posts. -Increased the number of followers from 17 to 5,926. - Supported scholarship selection process, including review of documents and formal requirements, communication with reviewers. - Assisted with the preparation and implementation of scholarship and research marketing events, offered consultations at the International Graduate Scholarship Fair (IGSF). - Supported the preparation and implementation of alumni meetings and scholarship holder excursions.

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

PhD in General LinguisticsHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Winter School in Data ScienceVolkshochschle Tempelhof-Schöneberg | 2025
MA in LinguisticsHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 2022
BA in German Language and LiteratureBeijing Foreign Studies University | 2018

About Me

Linguist with 4+ years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods. Always observing and analyzing data, finding patterns, building and improving models. Seek to improve NLP by combining grammar models and ML.

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