yxsun97
Ph.D. Candidate In Physics
Ph.D. Candidate in Physics with a focus on statistical modeling for stochastic systems, Monte Carlo methods, and renormalization group. Experienced in quantitative research and machine learning.
Experience: 2 years
Yearly salary: $20,000
Hourly rate: $45
Nationality: 🇨🇳 China
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience
Quantitative Research Intern
WorldQuant 2025 - 2025
Alpha Generation: Developed 3 alphas that works well on both Asia and Japan Top 1600 equity universes using daily price-volume data. Feature Generation: Generated 144 features as the input of NNs. Research Automation: Built LLM-powered alpha generation pipeline in Roo Code.
Undergraduate Research Intern
Yale University 2019 - 2019
Applied dimensionality reduction techniques to extract signals from high-dimensional simulation data.
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Science and Technology of China 2018 - 2020
Implemented SVRG and Adam optimization algorithms in Tensor Networks, achieving faster convergence than the standard SGD method.
Skills
ai
english
chinese-mandarin