About

I'm a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Computer Science, Economics, Statistics — 4.0 GPA) focused on systematic trading research. My work spans three tracks:

Live strategies. Favorite-longshot bias risk-premium capture on Kalshi binary contracts (currently paper trading at Square Kettle). A moving-average rotation between QQQ and TQQQ with a 27-year backtest. A 0DTE options strategy on SPY with an IB/Theta Data pipeline. See Strategies.

Open-source infrastructure. oracle3 (autonomous prediction-market trading agent, 100+ stars), Coinjure (U-Lab cross-exchange arbitrage harness on PyPI), and clawdfolio (portfolio analytics on PyPI, with Fama–French, GARCH, and a covered-call optimizer).

Pricing-theory research. A Wang-Transform decomposition of prediction-market prices, calibrated on 290K+ resolved contracts across six platforms. Sole-authored, on SSRN, submitted to FMA 2026.

CFA Level II candidate. Participant in the Baruch Pre-MFE Numerical Linear Algebra Seminar.

Experience

Square Kettle LLC Oct 2025 – Present
Quantitative Researcher · Chicago, IL

Favorite-longshot bias risk premium capture on Kalshi. Monte Carlo backtesting with realistic fill simulation. Secured approval for live paper trading.

U Lab, UIUC CS (Prof. Jiaxuan You) Jan 2026 – Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Champaign, IL

Cross-platform arbitrage infrastructure for Coinjure (open-source, PyPI, 12,000+ lines). Kalshi exchange adapter. 7 systematic strategies with walk-forward backtesting.

Fupan Quant Apr – Aug 2025
Quantitative Research Intern · Suzhou, China

Data and modeling pipeline for statistical arbitrage on co-integrated commodity futures. Top 0.3% in National Futures Trading Competition. Sharpe 1.2.

China Fortune Securities Jan – Mar 2025
Quantitative Research Intern · Shenzhen, China

ML pipeline for exchange microstructure data. Reduced out-of-sample RMSE by 13% and execution slippage by 57%.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Expected May 2027
B.S. in Computer Science & Economics & Statistics · GPA 4.0/4.0

CFA Level II Candidate · Baruch Pre-MFE · Dean's List 2023, 2024, 2025
First Place, National College Mathematics Competition of China (2024)

Skills

Languages: C++, Python, Java, R, SQL
Quantitative: Monte Carlo, MLE, GARCH/cointegration, time series, Random Forest, LightGBM, PyTorch
Infrastructure: asyncio, WebSocket, REST APIs, FastAPI, Docker, Git, Linux

Get in touch

I'm looking for Summer 2026 quantitative research / trading / SWE internships.