Projects | Jason Jia

Highlights

Sherlock Picasso

We built a marketing tool for SMBs that is effective, cheap, and easy to use.

Instagram vs Facebook vs TikTok for Boston Restaurants

Boston restaurants should use TikTok more to increase overall social engagement. Recommendation accepted by Life Alive Organic Cafe.

AI-Powered Email Assistant for CMA CGM

We built CMA CGM's AI-powered email assistant that generates recommended replies for over 100k weekly customer emails.

Computing Minimum Sample Size for A/B Tests in Statsmodels - How and Why

A deep-dive into how and why Statsmodels uses numerical optimization instead of closed-form formulas.

Pineapple Pepperoni

A creative ad - Watch how two data scientists race against the clock to help start a pizza restaurant in 24 hours!

MIT (2023-2024)

CircularInsightAI

An AI-powered circular economy idea evaluation assistant, designed to empower investors in making efficient and informed assessments.

Language Modeling with Trees

Tree-based methods such as XGBoost, Random Forest, CART and OCT can sometimes outperform neural networks on next character prediction while offering interpretability.

Videos You Love to Take

A personal video classification model based on deep learning to categorize and highlight videos users love to take.

Just-in-Time for Nike

Just-in-Time is not the most profitable supply chain strategy for Nike in an uncertain world.

Analytics for BigTechs in 2023-2024

A closer look at how the biggest tech players are using analytics to advance their key priorities.

Chicago Booth (2021-2023)

Conference Calls

A processing pipeline to download over 500k conference calls from Thomson One (Refinitiv) and identify paragraphs containing keywords related to hurdle rates.

Disaggregated Accounts

A website with interactive Tableau maps that visualize spending destinations and revenue sources for disaggregated sets of Denmark consumers and producers. This website hosts data from joint work by Asger Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, Kilian Huber, Niels Johannesen and Ludwig Straub (2022).

Greedier

A greedy algorithm that seeks to find the optimal sequence of rides through a theme park, given a set of constraints. Augmented with partial brute force, this algorithm produced outputs that ranked 2nd / 42 teams in CMSC 27200 (Theory of Algorithms).

Cascades

A 2-player board game played on Linux terminal. It is a generalization of Connect-Four, with a triangular board and a new "Earthquake" ability that shakes up the board. This is the final project in CMSC 15200 (Introduction to Computer Science II).

LSE (2018-2021)

Inflation under FIRE: Deviations and Explanations

A paper that reconciles seemingly contradictory conclusions from empirical evidence on deviations of inflation expectations from the Full-Information Rational Expectations (FIRE) hypothesis, based on the methodology of Angeletos, Huo and Sastry (2020).

Personal

Online Learning

A list of online programs and courses taken for personal learning.