Wei Hong

Student in MSc Mathematical Sciences

University of Oxford

Biography

Wei Hong is a graduate student of MSc Mathematical Sciences at University of Oxford. He graduated with distinction in BSc Mathematics from University of Manchester. His research interests are focused on the fertile intersection of mathematics and statistics.

He has gained some hard-won placements to forge a close connection with high-profile companies and elites in qualitative jobs. His close ties with the alumni of great Chinese universities, in particular Peking University and Tsinghua University, build up a strong network, while he actively engaged in various student-led activities.

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Interests

Inverse Problems
Data Assimilation
Reinforcement Learning

Education

MSc in Mathematical Sciences, 2022
University of Oxford
BSc in Mathematics, 2019
University of Manchester

Skills

Python

Matlab

Experience

Quantitative Research Analyst, Financial Engineering Department

China Great Wall Securities (CGWS)

Feb 2021 – May 2021 Shanghai, P.R. China

Involved in project one: Quantitative Market Timing Based on Mahalanobis Distance to Build Stock Investment Strategy; project two: Fund Investment Strategies Based on Past Returns.
Project one: Measured data similarity instead of relativity, identified market trends by the MACD indicator (the DEA line), the accuracy rate of measuring historical market hit 70%.
Project two: assisted in the reproduction of Clifford S. Asness’ Strategy from the Power of Past Stock Returns to Explain Future Stock Returns, during which the period of market/investment timing was shortened to the weekly unit and the calculation of R square was used to do the evaluation for forecasts.
Responsible for the weekly report writing with data extracted from Wind (including stock market indexes, futures exchange rates, etc) and the follow-up data analysis.

Data Analyst, Data Analysis Departmen

Shanghai LongYun Media Group Co., Ltd (OBM)

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 Shanghai, P.R. China

Core duties: web crawler, database management, web development, data visualization, data analysis, etc.
Philips Project: engaged in web crawler and data cleaning: supporting the cross-platform crawling of data (purchases at different time nodes and the portrait of consumers mainly from TaoBao.com, JD.COM, and Tik Tok); past data analysis and future trend predictio: NLP (natural language processing) analysis for customer satisfaction and purchase motivation and facilitate the company’s decision-making about its publicity methods (star endorsements, live streaming marketing, online/offline advertising) to reach target customers.
Company intranet construction: back-end automatic data crawling and database-based visualization module building (making histogram, scatter diagram, etc) (possibly promoted to future projects of the company).

Intern, Social Network Group (SNG) Department

Tencent Holdings Limited (TCEHY)

Mar 2020 – Mar 2020 Shen Zhen City, P.R. China

Assisted the development of recommendation system algorithm for social network services and that of data mining techniques for customer relationship management.