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Who am I?
Hello!
My name is Sida Yuan (he/him)
I was born in China, grew up in New Zealand and I've been living in Sydney since 2009
I’m a data scientist by trade and a mathematician by nature.
I currently work at Canva. It should go without saying that absolutely nothing on this website reflects the views of my past and present employers, institutions and colleagues. This is my personal space.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Advanced Mathematics) (Honours) from the University of Sydney in 2020
- Thesis: Series Representations of Lévy Processes and Applications
- Majors in Mathematics, Statistics
- Minors in Computer Science, Economics (omitted from my transcript to fit in the CS minor)
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19 academic awards
Well, if you insist...- University Medal
- KE Bullen Memorial Prize
- Top student in Applied Mathematics Honours
- MJ and M Ashby Prize
- Best honours essay in the School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2020
- Computer Science Undergraduate High Honour Roll
- George Allen Scholarship in Applied Mathematics
- University of Sydney Honours Scholarship
- Science Research Experience Scholarship 2019/20
- Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2019
- Academic Merit Prize 2018
- Denison Summer Research Scholarship 2018/19
- Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2018
- 'Taste of Research' Summer Scholarship 2017/18
- This one's for the University of New South Wales
- Norbert Quirk Prize 2017
- Essay: Applications of Game Theory to Evolutionary Biology
- Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2017
- Faculty of Science - Dean's Scholarship in Science
- Academic Merit Prize 2016
- Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2016
- Dean's Entry Scholarship in Faculty of Science
During my time at university, I was conducting mathematics research in stochastic processes
- S. Yuan and R. Kawai. Numerical aspects of shot noise representation of infinitely divisible laws and related processes, Probability Surveys, 18, 2021.
- S. Yuan and R. Kawai. Asymptotic degeneracy and subdiffusivity, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 53(9), 2020.
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