Quan Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolQuanquan Chen is a software development engineer with 13 years of experience who blends rigorous quantitative training from NYU Courant (M.S. Financial Mathematics, 3.96 GPA) and Zhejiang University with hands-on financial engineering and software roles at Numerix and AWS. He has applied stochastic calculus, optimization, Bayesian estimation, and machine-learning methods to real-market hedging simulations and securities research, and is fluent in Python tooling for data-driven modeling. Beyond internships and academic projects, he contributed quantitative research at a leading Chinese securities firm and taught recitations and office hours at NYU, demonstrating strong communication and mentorship skills. Now based in Seattle, he focuses on production-grade engineering that bridges research and scalable software, with a GitHub used as a research-code hub rather than a typical open-source portfolio.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonSenior High School, Senior High School at Beijing Number 4 High SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering, Market and Social Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Market and Social Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, Japanese, EnglishGithub contributions (3)
jmchn1994/cqz.name
Jul 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 9 months
jmchn1994/HINT
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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