Assistant High School

Xi (Cobe) Chen

**** *. **** **., ***. ****N, Chicago, IL 60615

773-***-****, ********@********.***

EDUCATION

+The University of Chicago, M.S., Financial Mathematics, Teaching

Assistant, Chicago, IL June 2010

. Portfolio Theory and Risk Control, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, PCA,

Interest Rate Derivatives, HJM model

. Quantitative Trade Strategy, Option Pricing, VAR, MLE, Numerical Methods,

Exotic Options

. Stochastic Calculus, Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistical Risk

Management, Time Series

+University of California, Los Angeles, Mathematics (Dean's honor list),

GPA 4.0/4.0, L.A., CA March 2009

+Sun Yat-sen(Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China

July 2009

B.S., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Honors), GPA 3.93/4.0, Rank 2

out of 167

. National Project (Primary author): Resource Optimization and Allocation

of Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center

EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

+ Patak Trading Partners, LLC, Chicago

July 2010-Present

Proprietary Trader Trainee, Futures Trader Program

. Executed trading strategies for Mini-S&P 500 futures trading on T4

Platform with practical training by professional

. Average Daily $9000+ Profit since program started

+Bank of China, Guangzhou, China

June 2008-August 2008

Summer Intern, International Settlements Department of Pearl River Branch

. Managed settlement issues, including remittance, collection, etc. .

Managed Information Data Center for China's customs

. Analyzed the information sharing pattern among departments and

independently designed a new database system which directly led to half

hour reduction of everyday overtime (off duty shifted from 9:00 p.m. to

8:20 p.m.).

+Evergrande Real Estate Group, China

June 2007-August 2007

Summer Intern, Hong Kong Branch, Guangzhou Branch

. Capital Operation: Developed optimization models to evaluated current

yield and long-term profitability

. IPO Preparation: Developed financial models to assess valuation

benchmarks

+Sohu.com Inc, Guangzhou, China

July 2005-September 2008

Part time, Programming Assistant, Design Assistant

. Project: Applied PHP to develop a search engine with a new algorithm to

reappraise searching effectiveness

Extracurricular Activities

+GBT Media of Sun Yat-sen University (Ranked the NO.1 student association),

China 2006-2008

President, Director

. Supervised large scale campus and commercial events at Sun Yat-sen

University

. Cooperated with companies (China Mobile, British Council, P&G etc.) and

efforts resulted in donations over $60,000

LANGUAGES and SKILLS

. Languages Native Mandarin and Cantonese, Beginning French

. Skills Programming: 6 years programming experience with PHP,

C++, JAVA, OOP, SQL, VBA

Mathematics: MATLAB, SAS, R, Mathematica, Maple

INTERESTS

. Soccer, Tennis, Electronic Sport . Chinese Chess, Poker, Bridge, The

Game of Go, Sudoku, Board Game, Guitar

AWARDS and HONORS

. First Class Outstanding Student Scholarship in SYSU, 2006-2007, 2007-

2008

. Outstanding Student Leader, Sun Yat-sen University, 2005-2006, 2006-

2007

. "KaiSi" Scholarship (highest-level scholarship), Sun Yat-sen University,

2005-2006

. Best High School Graduate Student awarded by Guangdong Education

Committee (Top 50 out of 450,000), 2005

. First Class Prize of National Mathematical Olympiad, 2000, 2001, 2002

. Second Class Prize of National Olympiad in Informatics, 2003

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