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New York, New York, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Options market making intern

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Helped code a portfolio optimizer and an accompanying graphic user interface using C# and SQL, yielding practical benefit to our trading team and insight into the long term performance of various trading strategies- Conducted Principal Component Analysis on ETF return data over time; researched using the change in principal component matrices across dates to predict and hedge against large market disruptions or shifts- Proposed and investigated graphing the difference in principal components over time to use as visual training data for our neural networks

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

- Investigated gaps between theoretical upper bounds and achieved results in network expressivity- Visualized expressivity of neural networks with ReLU activation functions by using code to examine the number of linear regions created by hyperplane slicing of the input space- Experimented on different neural network architectures to compare which trained to higher levels of accuracy on sample MNIST data- Delivered a final presentation and report to undergraduate researchers and program advisors to confer findings in a digestible manner

- At age 15, became youngest North American Champion in gaming history and qualified for the Hearthstone world championship, ultimately placing 5th-8th- Delivered Tedx talk during freshman year of high school to share and destigmatize my gaming experiences- Competed in 13 countries across 4 continents to earn a global ranking of #1 and Red Bull sponsorship- Led U.S. team in the Hearthstone Global League as both captain and ace player to a world semifinal placement

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics

Mathematics And Economics, Pure Math And Statistics