Computer Science
Citadel LLCComputer science has always been one of my greatest passions, and I have taken advantage of all opportunities I can in the field. The summers after my freshman and sophomore year (online) in high school, I interned as a software engineer at Citadel LLC, a $38 Billion hedge fund and financial services company. I executed large-scale platform migrations, scheduled post-trade jobs handling large sums of data, and developed DevOps software. I worked in a software development team utilizing the Agile workflow in roughly 45 hour workweeks, providing me with an amazing experience as a computer scientist in an industry career.
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SPOKESThe summer after my junior year, I interned under Dr. Brian D. Nord, a astrophysics and machine learning researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, through the Center for Data and Computing at the University of Chicago's Summer Lab Program. Under Dr. Nord, I worked on SpectrOscopic KEn Simulation (SPOKES), an open-source Python package providing an end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys. I published v0.1.0 on the Python Package Index by the end of the internship, and am continuing to work with Dr. Nord on SPOKES through an independent study during this school year. This work has provided me with great experience as a computer scientist in an academia career.
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Jump TradingAfter my senior year in high school, I interned as a quantitative researcher at Jump Trading, a high frequency trading firm based in Chicago. I generated, optimized, and evaluated several machine learning models to predict games with the Sports Betting team within the firm, pioneering exploratory data analysis and quantitative research for NCAA games. I learned far more about financial markets and deepened my understanding of machine learning algorithms and the role they play in finance.
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Code@LabCode@Lab is the Univeristy of Chicago Laboratory School's coding club. I first joined this club as a freshman, and after demonstrating strong interest and aptitude in the field, was made president the following year as a sophomore. Since then, I have led weekly meetings with lesson plans and recorded demos to teach our 25 or so members new and interesting topics in computer science. We also spend some meetings preparing our members for competitive computing competitions.
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ClassesI have pursued computer science through the courses I took at my high school and the University of Chicago. After self-studying for the AP Computer Science A exam, I took Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence at my high school as a sophomore. That year, I also took Algorithms at the Masters Program for Computer Science (MPCS) at the University of Chicago. My junior year, I took Computer Architecture and Applied Data Analysis at the MPCS as well. Throughout my years in high school, I truly have chased down every avenue to pursue computer science.
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Final research project for MPCS 53120 - Applied Data Analysis. Lifestyle Factors Related to Childhood Obesity (pdf).
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CommunityI have had the opportunity to put my knowledge in computer science to use in the community as a volunteer instructor in the Artifice program at Ray Elementary School, an organization dedicated to teaching marginalized students tech and entrepreneurial skills. I was able to work closely with underserved middle and high school students to teach them the fundamentals of robotics and computer programming.
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