Crystal Wang
Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCrystal Wang is an MIT-trained software engineer and quantitative technologist with eight years of experience building algorithmic and ML-driven solutions in finance and academia. Currently an Associate on Citadel’s commodities FTR trading desk, she blends rigorous CS and math foundations with hands-on market-strat experience from prior roles at Goldman Sachs. Her background includes teaching and lab support for MIT’s core algorithms and machine learning courses, reflecting both deep technical knowledge and an ability to communicate complex concepts clearly. Crystal’s internships across Nasdaq, InterSystems, and MIT research labs showcase a pattern of applied research and production-oriented engineering. Based in Cambridge, MA, she pairs a Master of Engineering from MIT with a practical focus on translating ML ideas into trading and systems that perform under real-world constraints. Notably, her trajectory reveals an early commitment to pedagogy and reproducible engineering alongside high-stakes quantitative work.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Princeton High School
Github Skills (16)
clustering9
convolutional-neural-networks8
latent-dirichlet-allocation8
transform8
sift8
allocation8
lda7
computer-vision7
scale6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
imagenet6
neural-network5
pytorch5
automation4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cwang506/epigen
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
EpiGEN: an epistasis simulation pipeline
Contributions:31 pushes in 8 months
simulation-pipelineepistasispipelinesimulation
cwang506/sgd_loss
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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