Dylan Xu
Trading Structuring Summer Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Xu is a quantitative-minded software engineer with a decade of experience bridging trading technology and research, currently based in Cambridge, MA and entering a Trading Summer Associate role at BMO Capital Markets. He combines a rigorous academic background—MS in Financial Mathematics at MIT and a multidisciplinary BS from McGill in statistics, computer science, and linguistics—with hands-on work on corporate bond covariance forecasting using graph neural networks. Dylan has delivered production-facing fintech and payment security systems at Citi while also contributing to quantitative research at Tradeweb, showing comfort moving between low-latency engineering and model development. Known for collaborative team building and solution orientation, he repeatedly turns complex financial problems into pragmatic implementations. An international thinker fluent in cross-disciplinary approaches, he brings both trading-floor pragmatism and research-driven curiosity to algorithmic trading and market structure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Financial Mathematics, Master's degree Financial Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySummer School Data Science, Summer School Data Science at Peking UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Statistics Computer Science Linguistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics Computer Science Linguistics at McGill University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
vim10
emacs10
emacs-lsp9
spacemacs9
melpa9
biometrics8
face7
face-recognition5
face-detection4
computer-vision4
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dyxu/go-leetcode
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
dyxu/system-design-primer
Jan 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 6 years 7 months
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