RUI LU
*** *** ****** #*, ***** City, NJ, *****, 312-***-****, *************@*****.***
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Chicago, IL
*/ **** – 5/ 2009
-GPA: 3.4/4.0
-Coursework includes Futures, Options and Other Derivatives, Financial Modeling I, II,
III, Financial Economics, Equity and Equity Trading, Fixed income Trading and
strategy, Financial Economics, Financial Statement, Investment Banking
-Received Stuart School Business Scholarship and Dean’s Scholarship
-Project:
Financial Modeling I: an application in VBA that utilizes Excel as the interface for a
stock portfolio optimization problem which can generate a constrained efficient frontier
for a user-selected portfolio of 2-5 stocks
Financial Modeling III: Construction of and Calibration of a Term Structure Model that
Incorporates a Flexible Skew Profile, Implemented via a Trinomial Tree
Equity and equity trading: An application in Excel and VBA to generate the best
allocation of stock and stock options for a portfolio in a pair trading strategy
Fixed income trading and strategy: An application in Excel to generate the best
allocation of T-bonds and other risk-neutral fixed income products for the best P&L of a
portfolio
Beijing Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering (BS) Beijing, China
9/ 2002 – 7/ 2006
-GPA: 3.4/4.0
-Coursework includes Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory &
Mathematical Statistics, C, C++, Digital Circuits, Computer Science, Information
System, Communication Theory, Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetic Field
Theory, Signal and System, Assembly Language, and Digital Signal Processing
-Received 4 times Beijing Institute of technology People’s Scholarship
-Won 4x100 races twice as a team member in school-sport-meeting
-Member: Science Community, Black White Comic Club, Rear Window Movie lover’s
Club
-Won the national mathematics competition second prize in 2001 in high school
Experience
Internship Beijing, China
Agricultural Bank of China
5/ 2008 – 7/ 2008
-Two month internship in the Business Department of The Agricultural Bank of China
headquarters in Beijing
-Provided equity products of foreign banks and investment companies to clients
-Attained knowledge of equity, private funds
SKILLS
-Computer: Excel, Word, Matlab, Computer Networks, VBA, C, C++ and Data Structures
-Languages: English and Mandarin