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Toronto, ON, CA

New York, New York, United States

• Investigating the impact of upcoming US election on Equity Market.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Monitoring risk shocks across portfolios and asset classes on a Total Fund level.
• Extract risk factors to construct risk benchmarks for Equity, Bond, Commodities and Derivatives.
• Prepare and update reports and presentation via Python and Power BI to senior risk directors on risk modeling, budgeting and monitoring.
• Implement and cater to on-demand requests from Risk and various investment departments across the Fund

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Run risk models to determine impact of changes in portfolio and economic assumptions.
• Conduct numeric analysis on simulation results and risk metrics.
• Review financial documents and compare reported data from different asset managers.

San Diego County, California, United States

• Quantitative research regarding extreme market events.
• Utilizing machine learning clustering methods (ex. K-Means) for stocks selection and filtering.
• Portfolio construction via Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization using clustered stocks.
• Managed a team of 6 for numerous projects.

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

• Conduct quantitative factor research utilizing institutional trading flows data.
• Implementing Lasso regression for equity factor selection.
• Utilizing statistical tests in identifying abnormal asset return.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Working under Professor Peter Cziraki to research corporate insider trading profit.
• Assisting in identifying media coverage & disclosure as a factor in reducing corporate insider trading activities.
• Collected and organized categorical data regarding coverage and operations of local newspapers across the U.S.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Search fund looking for companies with $2-5M EBITDA to acquire and operate.
• Spearheaded buyout due-diligence including macro-economic and industry research, market sizing and company analysis, reporting directly to fund Principals.
• Prepared Investment reports on companies in which CIMs/financials are obtained.
• Investment reports consists of business analysis on the owner’s motivation to sell, current and future revenue streams, Industry trends, key risks, and LBO valuation model.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Financial Engineering

Honour Bachelor Of Science - Hbsc, Statistics & Economics

Dean's List Scholar Graduated with High Distinction

Visiting Student, Economics

Courses Taken: • ENVECON 118 Applied Econometrics (Difference in Diff., Fixed Effect model, Time Series) • ECON 182 International Monetary.