Hope Chen
Quantitative Researcher
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolHope Chen is a quantitative researcher and former astrophysicist with 11 years of experience extracting spatial and temporal patterns from high-dimensional data and simulations. Now based in Shanghai at JQ Investments, she applies statistical analysis, machine learning, and data visualization to quantitative finance while retaining a deep researcher's rigor from postdoctoral work at Harvard and UT Austin. Her background includes building interactive visualization tools and production-ready pipelines—such as a Python parser and R Shiny app for COVID-19 reporting—and pioneering statistical methods to analyze nested hierarchical structures in astronomical data. Colleagues know her as a "Data Otaku" who pairs curiosity-driven exploration with deliverable-focused engineering, mentoring junior researchers along the way. She uniquely blends observational astrophysics experience (large awarded telescope programs) with practical data-science consulting for industry clients.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Master of Arts - MA, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
radial10
linked-data9
python8
data-visualizations8
linear-algebra7
astronomy7
visualization7
blas7
orbital-mechanics7
ndarray7
mpi7
interpolation7
numerics7
science7
convolution7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hopehhchen/Droplets
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
hopehhchen/Dryads
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 11 months
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