Mike Chou Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Institutional Structuring Group - Quantitative Investment Strategies (Global Markets)
• Enhanced the functionality of a cross-asset quantitative Python library for backtesting multi-layered index strategies managing $20 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)
• Improved trading transparency by delivering precise daily valuations of index levels and rebalancing costs, ensuring accuracy for researchers and traders
• Developed and automated ETL pipelines to generate daily reports on total exposure and P&L attribution across constituents of live strategies, reducing manual intervention and improving reporting efficiency
• Architected API/UI using object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns for optimized scalability

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Assisted government officials in their daily tasks to improve efficiency on process flow
• Handled 50+ applications daily for elderly and disabled civilians to set up their subsidized metro cards
• Responded to telephone inquiries in both mandarin and english, providing quality service to civilians inquiring about application processes for different financial grants and subsidies
• Partook in 45 hrs of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training and received a certified EMT Level 1 License

Toronto, Canada Area

• Interpreted complex data sets, analyze results, and provide ongoing reports using statistical techniques (R and Python)
• Worked on data engineering tasks including complex ETL process to transform unstructured data to structured data in a SQL database
• Created reporting tools for various departments at the company including KPI's for the operations teams, statistics to enable the sales team, and dashboards for the product team
• Automated reporting tool for independent contractors (raters) to evaluate them and give them feedback
• Utilized Amazon AWS technology to automate internal data system updates (EC2, S3, Quicksight)
• Worked on NLP projects including topic modeling on data for applicants

Taiwan

• Trained machine learning models by optimizing useful features in Python to forecast electricity usage with error rate as low as 2.41%
• Visualized complex data, draw conclusions and relationships to develop actionable recommendations to stakeholders
• Participated in 2 design thinking workshops to simulate realistic product development and practical designs
• Engaged in scrum meetings (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up) and an agile work environment in order to complete tasks in a more efficient manner

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Led groups of young kids aged 6-12 through scheduled daily activities
• Ensured a safe and positive experience for diverse groups
• Planned basketball drills and helpful activities to help middle school students develop and hone fundamentals

Master Of Science - Ms, Analytics | Computational Data Analytics (Machine Learning), 4.0

Relevant Courses: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, High-Dimensional Data Analytics, Computational Data Analytics, Data and Visual.

Bachelor'S Degree, Double Major In Computer Science And Statistics

Activities and Societies: UTM JV/Varsity Men's Basketball Team '16-'17Awards: Gamma Honour Roll '18-'19 (Obtained a grade of 90% or.

Highschool

Activities and Societies: Class of 2016 Student Representative, Head of Promotions for Prom Committee, Tri-M Music Honor Society Executive.