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Research interests: Data Science, Environmental Economics, Urban Resilience, and Climate Change.

News: The Seed Beatles Project (my BSc thesis was a part of) is now published at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology!

Current position: NWA-funded PhD Candidate in Urban Climate Resilience at Maastricht University, in which I am a part of the RED&BLUE Consortium

April 2024: Will present at the EGU 2024!

Current and Upcoming Projects + Events

[PhD Project 1.1] Measuring Resilience: A Systematic Meta-Review

• Presented preliminary results at the SoS Conference in Darmstadt!
• Will present as a poster at the EGU2024!

[PhD Project 1.2] Scoping Systematic Review on Economic Resilience

• Supervising 3 master thesis students!

• Jeehyun Piao, Johanna Schöllhorn, and Khandro Liu.

[PhD Project 2.1] A BRIC Portrait of Dutch Cities

• Supervising 6 bachelor students in which they will use and adapt the BRIC framework to measure baseline resilience levels of various Dutch cities.

• Artur Sowiński, Hannah Lear, Julia Zimoch, Maja Skwaroń, Patrick Trepte, and Phil Kara.

[PhD Project 2.2] ML-driven Urban Resilience Measurement

[Side Project] Erasmus Student Exchange Network

• Collaborating with Silvia Leoni

Past Projects + Events

Trifels Summer School 2023

• Selected for participation and learned about emerging issues regarding critical infrastructure!

EUR/SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2023

• Selected for participation and learned about various ML and Computational Social Science methods!

[Project Supervision] Electricity Networks in NL

• Together with the Centraal Planbureau (CPB), supervising master students on investigating the future of electricity networks and markets in The Netherlands.

[Project] Maastricht Student Housing Crisis

• Together with Dr. Shyama Ramani and students from UNU-MERIT, we are investigating the origins of the crisis and suggest policy recommendations for the Maastricht City Council.

[Project] Mobile Network Operator (MNO) ~ Eurostat

• Investigating and developing techniques for using MNO data as a current measure of present population for official statistics purposes.
  • Our efforts
  • A more detailed elaboration of the project

[Project] Consumer Preferences ~ VŠE: Faculty of International Relations, Dept. of World Economy

• Examined consumer preferences through trade data. Simultaneously tasked with data validation and the construction of database.

[Conference] Big Data Hackathon / 2021 NTTS Conference ~ Eurostat
Hackathon/Conference Participant | 26 February - 11 March 2021 | Brussels, Belgium

• Participated on behalf of the Czech Statistical Office, with colleagues from the Czech NSI.

[Project] SNA: 110th US Senate

• Focused on the influence and structure of the 110th US Senators using social network analysis.
  • Code
  • Write-up with full explanations

[Conference] European Geosciences Union 2019
Poster Presentation | 7 - 12 April 2019 | Vienna, Austria

• My work/BSc Thesis with Professor Piani and Professor Berg was presented at this conference.
• Link to our abstract

[Conference] 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Poster Presentation | 19 - 22 Aug 2018 | Montpellier, France

• My BSc Thesis/work with Professor Berg and Professor Piani was presented at this conference.

Work & Research Experience

PhD Candidate
Jan 2023 - Current | Full-time (40 hours per week) | Maastricht University | Maastricht, The Netherlands

• Part of the RED&BLUE Consortium.
• Finishing the UTQ/BKO certification.
• Active member of the R User Group.
• Teaching: EBC2196 Spatial Data for Good, EBC1042 Introduction to Business Analytics, EBC1045 Knowledge Discovery and Data Visualization
• Supervision: 3 Master Theses and 5/6 Bachelor Theses

Graduate Research Assistant
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 | Part-time (13 hours per week) | VŠE, Faculty of International Relations | Prague, Czech Republic

• Consumer Preferences Project. Please see above section.

Eurostat Summer Coding Lab Intern
Jul - Dec 2020 | Part-time (20 hours per week) | Eurostat: Unit B1 Methodology; Innovation in Official Statistics | Online

• Researched and developed the use of MNO data for estimating current population.
• Worked under the supervision of Dr. Fabio Ricciato.
• For a brief introduction to this coding lab (P8 + 9)
• Link for the completion certificate

Data Science Intern
Feb – Sep 2020 | Full-time (30 hours per week) | Czech Statistical Office: Agriculture and Environment Unit | Prague, Czech Republic

• Tasked with data validation, data cleaning, data modeling, data management, data analysis, and methodological research.
• Produced internal research reports on methodological comparisons between European NSIs and data insights on municipal waste.

Undergraduate Environmental Research Assistant
Jan – Aug 2017 | Part-time (10 hours per week) | The Joy & Edward Frieman Center for Environmental Science | Paris, France

• Joined Professor Elena Berg and Professor Claudio Piani in researching how environmental and genetic factors affect the seed beetle species, Callosobruchus maculatus.
• Tasked with performing scientific experiments, data analysis, methodology, and literature review.
• Research was presented at the Evolution Montpellier 2018 Conference in France and the 2019 European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
• Publication currently under review with the journal of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Assistant Lab Technician
Jan 2013 – Jun 2014 | Part-time (10 hours per week) | University of Cape Town: Molecular Cell Biology Lab | Cape Town, South Africa

• Focused on facilitating and managing the laboratory and assisted bachelor thesis students.
• Worked under Dr. Dionne Shepherd in the unit of Botanical Viral Genetics.

Teaching Experience

Economics Lecturer
Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 | Maastricht University | Maastricht, The Netherlands

• Courses taught: EBC2019 Banking, EBC1009 Economics and Business, EBC2138 Job Performance and the Employment Relationship, EBS1001 Reflections on Academic Discourse / Philosophy of Science, EBC1018 Macroeconomics, EBC2023 Managerial Economics, EBP4003 Economics Case Studies, EBC2109 Network Economics, EBC1030 International Economic Relations
• Bachelor and Master Thesis Examiner.
• Completed several components of the UTQ/BKO certification.
• Volunteer first-responder.

Faculty Nominated Academic Tutor
Jan 2016 – Jul 2018 | The American University of Paris | Paris, France

• Courses tutored: MA1020 Applied Statistics 1, MA1030 Calculus 1, MA1005 Math for Life, EC2010 Principles of Microeconomics, EC2020 Principles of Macroeconomics, EC2030 Intro to International Economic Relations, EC3020 Intermediate Macroeconomics.
• Managed regular and exceptional review sessions and assisted professors with grading, invigilating, and guest- lecturing.
• Awarded with the tutor award for the best graduating tutor upon feedback from students and faculty.

Calculus Tutor
Jan – Jul 2015 | Amsterdam University College | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Volunteered to assist Dr. Michael McAssey with weekly Calculus review sessions.

High School Teaching Assistant
Sep 2013 – Jun 2014 | American International School of Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa

• Assisted high school and middle school science departments as course administrator, lab technician, and guest teacher in selected topics.
• Coordinated the annual science fair and collaborated with the local university (University of Cape Town) for a field trip to understand and experiment with the electron microscope.

Education

PhD Candidate in Urban Climate Resilience
Jan 2023 - Present | Maastricht University (UM-SBE) | Maastricht, The Netherlands

• Under the supervision of Dr. Tina Comes, at the Department of Data Analytics and Digitalization, School of Business and Economics
• NWA (Dutch National Research Fund) funded project

MSc European Master in Official Statistics (EMOS)
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021 | Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE) | Prague, Czech Republic

• Academic Merit Scholarship Student
• GPA: 93%
• MSc Thesis: “Wasteful: Investigating the EKC of Municipal Waste and Income, and a social network exploration on the Trade of Recycled Waste”

MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change (EECC)
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | London, United Kingdom

• MSc Thesis: “Family Planning and Future Environments: Is It a Concern?”

BSc International Economics (IE) & Quantitative Environmental Science (QES)
Sep 2015 - May 2018 | The American University of Paris (AUP) | Paris, France

• Double Departmental Honors Graduate with Magna Cum Laude:
  • Maintained Global Citizen Scholarship and Financial Aid throughout studies
  • Achieved Provost’s lists for most semesters in attendance
• Double minored in Applied Mathematics and Applied Statistics
• Exchanged for a semester at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Fall 2017)
• Transferred from Amsterdam University College (Sep 2014 - June 2015)
• QES thesis: “Impacts of Projected Climate Change on the Evolution of Behavior and Life History in Seed Beetles, Part I: Adaptation of Seed Beetles to a Stressful, Fluctuating Environment – The Preliminary Results and Other Statistical Approaches”
• IE thesis: “The Shape of U: Investigating the U/N Relationship of the Environmental Kuznets Curve”

Volunteer Experience & Extracurricular Activities

Data @ ANZ Program
Feb 2021 | ANZ | Online

• Completed practical tasks in predictive analytics and exploratory data analysis through the use of R.
• Link for the completion certificate

Data Analytics Consulting Virtual Internship
May - Jun 2020 | KPMG | Online

• Completed practical tasks in data quality assessment, data insights, and presentation through the use of Tableau and Microsoft Office.
• Link for the completion certificate

Super Student Representative for the LSE Geography and Environment Department
Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 | London School of Economics and Political Science | London, United Kingdom

• Advocated for diverse and non-exam based assessments, improvement of the course choice system, pre-arrival mentor assignment, and more study spaces on campus.
• Nominated as the graduate student representative for the LSE Education Committee by the super student representative forum, represented on behalf of all graduate students.

Student Representative for the LSE MSc EECC program
Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 | London School of Economics and Political Science | London, United Kingdom

• Met bi-weekly, surveyed students on program satisfaction, and proposed changes to faculty administration.

Skills and Interests

Languages
Native (C2): English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien
Professional (B2): Afrikaans
Basic Conversational (A2/A1): Dutch, Taiwanese Sign Language, Czech, Spanish, and French

Data Analysis and Programming
R, ArcGIS, SQL, Stata, Excel, SPSS, Java, Lindo, Data Desk

Other IT Skills
Markdown, GitHub, MS Office Suite, VBA, HTML, CSS

Miscellaneous

• First Aid Level 3, certified in South Africa.
• Piano and Music Theory
  • ABRSM grade 5 with merit in both subjects, started playing since 2001, performed for many events such as TEDx and official university events.
  • Link to one of my recorded performances
• A list of other certificates received, e.g. from IBM or National Energy Board of Canada here.

Other Work Experience

Bookstore Sales Assistant
Dec 2015 – Jun 2018 | Part-time (10 hours per week) | AUP Bookstore | Paris, France

• Assisted with daily sales operations, stock control, and general appearance of the bookstore
• Managed rush distribution and produced BI insights on bookstore stock management and AUP community engagement.

Interdepartmental Assistant
May – Jul 2016 | Part-time (20 hours per week) | The American University of Paris | Paris, France

• Primarily assisted the AUP French department in the organization and facilitation of the French Summer Immersion program.
• Liaised with various AUP departments and external French commercial sources.

Research References

Robin Cowan
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Maastricht University / UNU-MERIT
r.cowan@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Martina Miskolczi
Assistant Professor
Department of Demography
Prague University of Economics and Business
martina.miskolczi@vse.cz

Kristýna Vltavská
Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs / Lecturer
Department of Economic Statistics
Prague University of Economics and Business
kristyna.vltavska@vse.cz

Jaroslav Sixta
Vice President of the Czech Statistical Office
Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Statistics
Prague University of Economics and Business
jaroslav.sixta@vse.cz

Alexandra Svoronou
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Math, and Environmental Science
The American University of Paris (AUP)
asvoronou@aup.edu

Teaching References

Ann Murphy Borel
Former Director of the Academic Resource Center
The American University of Paris (AUP)
aborel@aup.edu

Naomi Sabatta
Former Teaching Assistant Coordinator
American International School of Cape Town
istanaomi40@gmail.com

Contact Details

Email: tonyhung.th@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyhungry
GitHub: https://github.com/tonyhungry

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