Yuxiang Chen
Trader at Akuna Capital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuxiang Chen is a trader and data-savvy quantitative engineer with eight years of experience building ML-driven analytics and trading systems across crypto, equities, and derivatives. Currently on Akuna Capital’s Crypto D1 team, he progressed from intern to trader by applying full-stack data science pipelines and production-ready tools to research and execution. A Northwestern Combined BS/MS student in CS and Industrial Engineering with hands-on internships at DV Trading and Milliman, he blends mathematical rigor with practical software skills in Python, C++, and front-end product work. As CTO of a student startup he led rapid product iterations and built a Chrome extension and analytics backend to improve recruiting outcomes—evidence of his product instincts beyond pure quant research. He’s particularly skilled at turning noisy market or sensor data into actionable signals, having deployed smoothing algorithms and automated ML analyses in both healthcare and trading contexts.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
China High School Diploma, China High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language SchoolCombined BSMS Program - MS Computer Science, Combined BSMS Program - MS Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at United World College Changshu China
Chinese, English, HindiGithub contributions (5)
yuxiangalvin/Stock-Move-Prediction-with-Adversarial-Training-Replicate
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
yuxiangalvin/DeepLOB-Model-Implementation-Project
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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