Hans Choi Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, MA, US

• Jan 2019 - Jan 2022: Lead Data Scientist, S&P Global Corporate
• Promoted to Lead Data Scientist at S&P Global Corporate after S&P Global's acquisition of Kensho Technologies.
• Leading efforts on climate change & environmental risk modeling using NLP and Machine Learning.
• Leading efforts on dynamic industry classification with emerging technology using NLP and Machine Learning.Feb 2018 - Jan 2019: Data Scientist, Kensho Alternative Data Team
• Leader of Project Libra, a joint project with S&P US Public Finance team to predict municipal default using machine learning techniques.
• Leader of Luxury Goods Project, a project to deliver real-time alternative inflation measure using web-scraped price data.

New York, New York, US

• Lazard Data Science & Analytics Group
• Attended regular meetings with the CEO and participated in a newly formed data analytics group at Lazard.
• Led a project to develop a volatility prediction model with machine learning techniques for 2,243 stocks that is used by investment bankers.
• Led a project to develop a sentiment index for 2,243 stocks using 3,000,000 news data and financial data.
• Led a project to analyze stock option data to improve financial advisory activities such as M&A deals.

Central, Hong Kong, HK

• Led a team to perform quantitative analysis of derivatives market and develop trading strategies.
• Hired and supervised junior traders, quantitative researchers, and software developers.
• Fund launch was delayed indefinitely due to legal obstacles in entering Shanghai Options Exchange as a foreign entity.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed overall position and daily risks of S&P 500 Index option portfolio.
• Collaborated with developers on creating delta and volatility alpha generating algorithms and developing automated trading systems.
• Recorded positive group P&L and positive individual P&L every year from 2011 to 2014.

Classified, Classified, KR

• Participated in and won 29 simulation battles, spending total of 145 days in the northern mountains of South Korea.
• Developed and organized human resource management system of the infantry company.
• Received award from Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) Commanding General for contribution to doctrine development.
• Received commendation from Korea Combat Training Center Brigadier General for outstanding performance in combat training.

New York, NY, US

• United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
• Managed supply, sales, settlement, and financial affairs of Battalion welfare commodities.
• Developed an automated system for the international settlement and financial management of welfare commodities.
• Received United Nations Silver Medal from commander of UNIFIL for the contribution to peacekeeping operations.

Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Psychology

Master Of Science (M.S.), Data Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance And Statistics

Business Administration And Management, General

High School Diploma