Kailei Lin Research Associate, Spatial Statistics
Kailei Lin is a Spatial Statistics Research Associate at Beacon Economics. Ms. Lin conducts data research and analysis that crosses multiple practice areas within the firm including Sustainable Growth and Development, Regional and Sub-Regional Analysis, and Housing, Land Use, and Real Estate Analysis. Her current work portfolio includes integrating and developing logistical and internal cloud-based data models and analyzing Geospatial and U.S. Census data for a variety of demographic and economic indicators.
Through her interdisciplinary study in Data Science and Spatial Analysis, Ms. Lin has developed strong expertise in quantitative geospatial analysis and modeling; analysis of programing algorithms; data mining and aggregation over large-scale datasets; ArcGIS; and data visualization. She works with classification methods, including K-means clustering, to understand the dynamics of transit ridership and transit user segmentation, and generates data features on platforms such as Apache Spark and Snowflake to decompose large-scale, location-based problems. As part of NASA Harvest, Ms. Lin applied her statistical programming skills in Python and R to develop a global crop yield forecasting system using satellite and weather data. These results fed into a public web forum, helping government and private agencies monitor food shortages.
Prior to joining Beacon Economics, Ms. Lin interned as a Map Software Engineer for technology startup TuSimple where she built high-definition maps from massive 3D LiDar data and captured and debugged over 300,000 errors in map products by performing root cause analysis. Her work helped the company expand its regional freight network coverage. Ms. Lin also interned as a Data Analyst with the Guangzhou City Planning Kance Design & Research Institute in Guangzhou, China where she conducted data cleaning of building footprints data using ArcGIS, SQL, and python.
Areas of Expertise
Ms. Lin holds an M.S. in Spatial Data Science from the University of Southern California and a B.S. in Urban Planning with a certificate in Geographic Information Systems and Cartography from Miami University.
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