Abdirizak Yussuf Email : yussuf.nlp@gmail.com St. Cloud, Minnesota Mobile : 502-298-0918 Education St. Cloud State University B.S. Statistics: Mathematical Statistics Expected: May 2023 B.A. Mathematics Expected: December 2023 Awards: Dean’s Lists St. Cloud Technical and Community College A.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduated: December 2020 Organizations and awards: Phi Theta Kappa honor society, Dean’s list, Mary Stangler Center Experience Midnimo Grocery, Halal Meat and Restaurant Inventory Control Clerk Jan 2018 - Present ◦ Open and close the store, balance daily money received, and assist cashiers as needed ◦ Review and document vendor invoices ◦ Track inventory using Point of Sale system ◦ Use excel and R programming to analyze sales data ◦ Meet with and provide product recommendations to store owner ◦ Coordinate purchasing and pricing of new products with owner Bridges MN Direct Support Professional Jul 2020 - May 2021 ◦ Promoted independence with clients by offering choices and fostering self-help skills ◦ Documented any changes in clients’ condition or incidents ◦ Possessed qualities like compassion, flexibility, and adaptability in handling changing situations. ◦ Maintained a clean environment by assisting clients with daily room order and light housekeeping ◦ Assisted clients with activities of daily living (including, but not limited to, administering medication, dressing, showering, grooming, toilet assistance and escorting) St. Cloud Technical and Community College Tutor Oct 2019 - Jun 2020 ◦ Tutored students in Math up to Multi-variable Calculus, Logic, and Critical Thinking ◦ Developed action plans for students of differing needs and learning styles ◦ Helped students better understand material and achieve their academic goals Projects N-Gram Based Language Categorization St. Cloud State University Dec 2022 ◦ Web scraped news articles from the BBC and implemented an n-gram-based approach for text categorization for under-resourced languages, including Somali and Oromo ◦ Used functional programming in R and implemented a hash table to optimize the algorithm and store the data ◦ Tested the system on a language classification task using BBC news articles written in different languages, achieving a 100% correct classification rate on documents of length 100 characters and up to 98% correct classification rate on documents of length 50 characters ◦ Identified areas for further improvement, including generating gibberish text as adversarial examples for the model and incorporating additional features through the analysis of the distributional similarity of unigrams using concepts from Group Theory, such as permutation groups and cyclic permutations ◦ Presented findings through presentation slides created using L A TEX U.S. Census Bureau Income Data Analysis eUSR Conference Nov 2022 ◦ Presented project at the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference ◦ Utilized R to analyze and interpret U.S. Census Bureau income data from 1960-2019 ◦ Conducted statistical analysis using ANOVA model to test hypothesis on income inequality in the U.S. ◦ Implemented data visualization techniques using ggplot2 to effectively communicate findings, including slope graphs and univariate clustering plots ◦ Utilized k-medians clustering to partition data and create income tiers for analysis University of Minnesota RSDP University of Minnesota Extension Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 ◦ Participated in the University of Minnesota Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnership (RSDP) project focused on increasing the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables in the Somali community in Saint Cloud, Minnesota ◦ Collaborated with the University of Minnesota Extension and local organizations to incorporate in-store healthy food interventions ◦ Acted as a conduit and connector between the Extension Center and community members 2020 UMN Extension Projects Community Involvement Emergency Halal Food Supply Hub Midnimo LLC Apr 2020 - Jul 2020 ◦ Led the development of the Midnimo Emergency Halal Food Supply Hub in partnership with UMN Extension to address food insecurity in the community during the COVID-19 lockdowns ◦ Assisted with the distribution of food to families in need ◦ Created a brochure to engage and inform community members about the initiative ◦ Contributed to raising awareness about the issue of food insecurity in the community during a time of crisis UMN press release: Empowered to become a community champion Somali grocery doubles as halal food shelf in St. Cloud Skills • R, Python, Mathematica, CSS, L A TEX • Functional Programming • Fluent in English, Somali, and Arabic