• Engage in a finance research program in the economics department supervised by Professor Eswar Prasad• Analyze the risk management of US firms by evaluating their operations in the derivative market• Document and examine 750 US firms’ notional amounts and fair values for all foreign exchange derivative contracts they signed after 1998 by reviewing their annual reports (10-K) on SEC EDGAR in Excel• Identify and report whether the contract is designated as a part of a hedging… Show more • Engage in a finance research program in the economics department supervised by Professor Eswar Prasad• Analyze the risk management of US firms by evaluating their operations in the derivative market• Document and examine 750 US firms’ notional amounts and fair values for all foreign exchange derivative contracts they signed after 1998 by reviewing their annual reports (10-K) on SEC EDGAR in Excel• Identify and report whether the contract is designated as a part of a hedging relationship or not Show less

• Co-founded and registered CQSS as an official student organization at Cornell University that focuses on applying mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to real-world problems in social science• Organized other student officers in CQSS to consult with Professor Sainyam Galhotra and drafted a plan for our first project: predicting college academic performance (GPA) using high school metrics with programming • Recruit about 50 student members and allocate different tasks… Show more • Co-founded and registered CQSS as an official student organization at Cornell University that focuses on applying mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to real-world problems in social science• Organized other student officers in CQSS to consult with Professor Sainyam Galhotra and drafted a plan for our first project: predicting college academic performance (GPA) using high school metrics with programming • Recruit about 50 student members and allocate different tasks to them for the project: surveying students at Cornell, extracting practical samples, and quantifying them as data into GitHub in the summer• Planned to code the dataset into R programming language, model it into different regressions, compare their fitness with indexes such as adjusted R-squared and mean square error, and write a final report in the fall semester• Host student officers’ monthly meetings and encourage them to deliver their opinions for future project planning Show less

• Assisted the project team with the interim financial report of a great Chinese bank based in Jinan• Completed approximately 240 Control Risk (CR) assessment tasks, assessing the client’s internal control system• Inspected about 300 risky loan services and determined whether risks from the last period had been resolved• Communicated with the client’s managers to investigate the repayment of principal and interest on risky loans• Rated the risk levels again for each loan service… Show more • Assisted the project team with the interim financial report of a great Chinese bank based in Jinan• Completed approximately 240 Control Risk (CR) assessment tasks, assessing the client’s internal control system• Inspected about 300 risky loan services and determined whether risks from the last period had been resolved• Communicated with the client’s managers to investigate the repayment of principal and interest on risky loans• Rated the risk levels again for each loan service based on the information gathered from the bank managers Show less

• Joined an external audit project for the initial public offering (IPO) of a securities firm in China• Screened and obtained about 100 random samples for processes in future walk-through tests and control tests• Systemized the samples and utilized mathematical models in Excel to finish 200 walk-through and control tests• Recorded about 2000 specific journal entries and helped construct the client’s balance sheet for the past three years