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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Teaching Assistant for International Finance (Mini 1 and 2, Fall 2023)In charge of grading exercises and exams for a class of 40 students, holding weekly office hours, and providing written hints for weekly exercises.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Teaching Assistant for Financial Computing I (Mini 1, Fall 2023); in charge of grading students' homework and holding Office Hours.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Examined the Systematic Options Market Making desk’s auction responses and made recommendations for improving them; forward-tested to determine how much of the theoretical 1500% PnL increase could be captured in productionInvestigated trading signals in the ES/EOM-SPX/W options’ implied volatility spreadTraded and managed risk using sheets in an open.

New York, NY, US

Stationarized historical inflation data by implementing a lagged differencing algorithm before comparing the accuracy of ARIMA models and native statsmodels functions in decomposing inflation into its trend and seasonality components

Chicago, IL, US

Was in charge of fostering community and maintaining standards for a 104-student house through weekly planned activities and study breaksProvided emotional support and guided students to resources on campus; responded to emergencies as their primary point-of-contactTook on an informal academic tutoring role; helped 10-15 students regularly with CS, Math.

Chicago, IL, US

Teaching Assistant for CMSC 15100 - Introduction to Computer Science I. Was in charge of holding Office Hours, managing Labs, grading work, and answering students' questions for an average of 15 hours/week.

Chicago, IL, US

Held Office Hours for 8 hours/week for all students with any questions pertaining to Computer Science; assisted with both coursework and extracurricular projects.

Chicago, IL, US

Grader for CMSC 15100-15200 (Introduction to Computer Science I-II) over Summer 2021. Provided feedback to students on their work and assisted with other administrative tasks surrounding the running of the course in a team consisting of 3 other graders and an instructor.

Chicago, IL, US

TA for CMSC 12300 (Computer Science with Applications III) in Spring 2021. Was in charge of holding Office Hours, managing Labs, leading discussion sections, and answering students' questions for an average of 15 hours/week.

Chicago, IL, US

Held Office Hours for 8 hours/week for all students with any questions pertaining to Computer Science; assisted with both coursework and extracurricular projects.

Chicago, IL, US

Conducted biographical research on judges in AmericaAnalyzed companies' letters to shareholders to identify trends in corporate decision-making strategies.Conducted biographical research on top executives to understand and quantify intergenerational mobility in the top 1%.

Chicago, IL, US

Implemented an algorithm in Python to scrape and process data from various sources while accounting for irregularities; worked for Professor John List's team.

Chicago, IL, US

Wrote an article on US-China relations which was published in the Journal.

New York, NY, US

Interpolated interest rate term structure curves in Python to fit cleaned market data for EONIA, EURIBOR 1M, EURIBOR 3M, and EURIBOR 6M interest rate term structures from 2000-01-01 till 2020-04-01; began smoothening anomalies in curves by changing data or interpolation methods

Pleasanton, CA, US

Researched the need for and financial soundness of Sustainable Investing. Used Python to analyze the returns of ESG portfolios and to find ways to dynamically construct such portfolios in a way which improves net returns.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

Used mySQL, Python, and R to process the data for over 300,000 clients and generate summary statistics and graphs for presentationsExposed to how ML algorithms (including Naïve Bayes, K-NN, Decision Trees, and SVM) can be used to predict clients’ lifetime value

Conducted in-depth research into NVIDIA’s CUDA Framework and how it is used to program GPUs for ML/AI applicationsUsed this to develop a 3-statement 5-year projection DCF model which accurately predicted NVIDIA’s share prices for a 4-week period

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Used Python and R to analyze and present Big Data pertaining to the performance of photovoltaic cells for a multinational solar company in Asia.

London, GB

Researched multitranch loan financing in Singapore and presented a summary for a Partner’s upcoming assignment as part of Allen & Overy's insight week.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Analyzed Facility Agreements and drafted model Term Sheets. Reported to Associates on Singapore’s energy sector, Corporate Power Purchase Agreements, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Christchurch, Canterbury, NZ

Promoted Real Milk Co.'s products during a New Zealand fair in Singapore over a period of 9 days. Basic analysis of customer patterns and sales for the company. Contributed towards Real Milk's number 1 position in terms of sales during the fair.

Singapore, SG

Planned for Battalion-level missions in the S2 Branch, utilizing technical knowledge of military strategy, convention, and symbolsOversaw a team of 6 to uphold IT security and maintain media records for the entire battalion; drafted reports for Higher HeadquartersAwarded: Best Commander of the Quarter (2017) and Commanding Officer’s Coin (2017)

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Shadowed a lead surgeon at Changi General Hospital. Learnt about patient management as well as post-release care. Edited a paper on schistosomiasis appendicitis.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics

Singapore-Cambridge Gce 'A' Levels