Experience

  1. Quantitative Systematic Trader

    Susquehanna International Group
    Excited to start work at SIG!
  2. Research Intern

    National Institute of Informatics
    I completed an internship at the National Institute in Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. I worked with Prof. Yoshida Yuichi on spectral graph theory projects.
  3. Tenor

    University Choir, Conrad Grebel College @Waterloo
    The University Choir is currently led by Liska Jetchick. I found refuge in the music produced during the rehearsals and in the connections made with fellow musicians. For each concert, our repertoire is diverse but tightly held by a common theme. I also served as manager and (tenor) section leader for a few terms.
  4. French Summer School Student

    Université Catholique de Lyon
    Je me suis inscrit dans un cours français intensif d’été, au niveau B1+, à l’Université Catholique de Lyon. C’était une très belle expérience et j’en ai bien profité!
  5. Teaching Assistant

    CUHK Mathematics
    I helped Dr. Jeff Chak-Fu Wong set up WebWork for the 2018/19 offering of MATH 1010 (Calculus I) at CUHK. WebWork is an open-source online homework system for STEM courses, founded by MAA in 2018. My job was to create and import exercise questions of answer formats with parameter randomization.
  6. Research Assistant

    CUHK Mathematics
    I worked with Prof. Po Lam Yung (now at ANU) to study a problem related to bivariate polynomials, that has connections to the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.
  7. Research Intern

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Under the guidance of Dr. Esmond G. Ng, I investigated solving sparse linear systems with Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury formula. A lot of MATLAB experimentation involved. (Presentation slides)
  8. Head Teaching Assistant

    Enrichment Programme for Young Mathematics Talents (EPYMT)
    EPYMT is a summer course for talented secondary school students to learn university-level mathematics. I was TA in 2017 and 2019, teaching Differential Geometry in 2017 and Number Theory in 2019. As the head TA for the latter course, I was responsible for preparing the quizzes and the exam. (here, here, and here. The bonus questions should be an interesting challenge.)
  9. Problem Setter

    La Salle-Pui Ching Programming Challenge
    La Salle-Pui Ching Programming Challenge is an ACM-ICPC style programming contest for secondary school students, jointly hosted by La Salle College (my alma mater) and Pui Ching Middle School. I was involved in setting problems for the first three editions of the Challenge and also in running the contest.
  10. Participant

    Number Theory Seminar, CUHK Mathematics
    I took part in the number theory seminar organized by Dr. Charles Chun-Che Li. Our group met roughly once a week and read and discussed results in number theory: modular forms, p-adic number theory, and more.
  11. Head of Scientific Committee

    Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics Organizing Committee
    We prepare competition and team selection test problems (I have authored 80+ problems so far), conduct training sessions, and other duties to ensure the competition seasons are run smoothly. The pipeline for preparing a problem involves description writing, test case creation, testing of correct and incorrect solutions, and writing editorials.
Selected Awards
Enigma Cup @University of Waterloo
UW ∙ September 2022
Our team won the inaugural “Enigma Cup”. It was a three-day series of math-themed cryptic puzzles, and I had a lot of fun solving them!
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
ACM-ICPC ∙ May 2017
I took part in the ACM-ICPC World Finals twice, qualifying through the EC region in both 2015/16 and 2016/17. In the qualifiers, we obtained a few 2nd places and 3rd places, only behind super-schools like Tsinghua University. Our team got 41st place in the 2016 World Finals in Thailand and 35th place in the 2017 World Finals in USA. I was also involved in setting several problems for the 2016 Hong Kong Regional Contest.
International Olympiad in Informatics
IOI ∙ August 2015
I represented Hong Kong in the IOI in 2013 (Australia), 2014 (Taiwan), and 2015 (Kazakhstan), taking home a silver medal each time. My profile (link).
International Mathematical Olympiad
IMO ∙ July 2015
I represented Hong Kong in the IMO in 2015 (Thailand), getting Honorable Mention. My profile (link).
Hang Lung Mathematics Awards
HLMA ∙ December 2014
I won an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards. The research topic was “Two Methods for Investigating the Generalized Tic-Tac-Toe”. Joint work with Lut Yin Luke Lau. (Paper)
Languages
100%
Cantonese
90%
English
70%
Mandarin
30%
French