Crystal Wang
Quantitative Researcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCrystal Wang is a quantitative researcher and software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building low-latency systems, ML pipelines, and production backend services at firms including Citadel, Google, Microsoft, and Bloomberg. A dual Computer Science and Mathematical Economics major at MIT, she combines rigorous quantitative thinking with practical engineering—moving from latency analysis and infrastructure design to NLP and data-driven feature work across multiple internships. At Citadel she transitioned from software engineering to quantitative research, reflecting a blend of production-grade coding and research-oriented modeling. Beyond engineering, she organizes hackathons and career fairs and teaches CS, signaling a knack for community-building and mentorship that complements her technical depth. Open to part-time roles and internships, she brings both fast prototyping experience and a track record of shipping reliable systems in large-scale environments.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematical Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematical Economics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStuyvesant High School
Chinese, fujianese chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
react2
portal2
javascript2
django2
data-manipulation1
commons1
data-management1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cwcrystal8/AP-CS-Spring-Final-Project
May 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:33 pushes in 4 years 9 months
cwcrystal8/cwcrystal8.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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