Duke Yudong Shi
City Station, **** * th Ave . 518-***-****
Troy, NY 12180 https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudongshi ****.*********@*****.***
SUMMARY
MS in Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics with concentration in quantitative finance
Experience in consumer auditing and financial service consulting and 4-year trading experience
Strong command of MATLAB, Python, C++ and Eviews; able to use MATLAB to deal with mean-variance portfolio
optimization and to price plain vanilla and exotic options by either binomial trees or Monte Carlo methods
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, U.S.A Aug. 2013-Present
MS in Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics (FERA), Aug. 2013-Dec.2014
GPA: 3.94/4.0 Concentration Courses: Quantitative Finance Track
Masters’ Scholars Research Program, Aug. 2014-Present
Worked as research assistant for Pr. Tracy on the paper Language Pricing Negotiation (listed as co-author); collected
price quote data from plastic injection molding suppliers on Alibaba.com ; performed data processing to discover the
role of in-group ethnic preference in negotiation in supply chain management
Teaching Assistant (Mathematical Science Department) Jan. 2014-Present
Ran four TA sessions on Multivariable Calculus and Matrix Algebra (from Jan. 2014 to May 2014) and Calculus II
(from Aug. 2014 to Dec. 2014) every week to explain difficult concepts and homework problems to 130 undergraduate
students; held two office hours to tutor undergraduate students on the course; graded exams, quizes and homework
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), Shanghai, CN Sept. 2009-Jun.2013
Bachelor of Economics in Banking and International Finance, Sept. 2009-Jun.2013
GPA: 3.23/4.0 Experimental Honors Class (students are top 10% in School of Finance)
President of Stock Study Association, Sept. 2011-Jun. 2012
Invited professors and securities professionals to present lectures on security knowledge lectures; organized publicity
and funding for Stock Trading Competitions
INTERNSHIP &WORK EXPERIENCE
Self-Employed Freelancer Trader Aug. 2009-Present
Managed stock fund for a small group of private investors (mainly my father ’s friends and relatives) using a stock pool
based on Buffett Valuation Metrics; designed pairs trading strategy model and momentum strategy model; used Eviews
and MATLAB to do historical price time series analysis and regression analysis; increased return by approximately 7%
Accenture, Shanghai Consulting Analyst (Intern) Sept. 2012-Dec. 2012
Helped design a risk management system to for client insurance company (Fortune 500), with ultimate responsibility
of the Control Self-Assessment and Optimization and Improvement modules
Deloitte &Touche, Shanghai Auditor (Intern) Dec. 2011-Feb. 2012
Provided audit service to a client bank; designed and sent confirmation requests; conducted reviews to assess the
default risk of loan recipients
AWARD& SCHOLARSHIP
Teaching Assistantship Award ( $ 9000 Awarded by Math ematical Science Department, RPI) Aug. 2014/ Jan. 2014
Tuition Scholarship ( $24000, Awarded by Lally School of Management, RPI) Aug. 2014/ Jan. 2014
CFA level 1 exam Student Scholarship (Awarded by Professor Zhu, SUFE, CFA holder) Oct. 2012
People’s Scholarship (Awarded by SUFE) Sept. 2012
LICENSES& TECHNICAL SKILLS
Passed CFA level 2 exam (Now CFA Level 3 Candidate) Jul. 2014
C++ Programming for Financial Engineering (C++ certificate on QuantNet, scoring 87 out of 100) Apr. 2014
Bloomberg certified in Equity, FX, FI, and Commodities(Bloomberg Essentials Training Program) Apr. 2014
Proficient user of MATLAB, Eviews, Python, MS Visual Studio (C Bloomberg Terminal