EMPLOYMENT.
08.2009-present / RED BANK, NJ TRADEWORX, QUANTITATIVE ANALYST Tradeworx operates a quant info-arb hedge fund and a high frequency prop trading desk. Work includes analysis, simulation, and implementation of dark pool execution strategies. 06.2008-08.2009 / PALO ALTO, CA PALANTIR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INTERN Palantir provides high end analysis solutions for government and financial enterprises. Work included the design of two features on their financial product: streaming news analysis and a workflow tool. 12.2007-01.2008 / CAMBRIDGE, MA KANE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, ANALYST KCM is a long short equities stat-arb hedge fund. Analyzed portfolio returns for August 2007. 06.2007-08.2007 / NEW YORK, NY GOOGLE, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INTERN Developed scalable user xml feeds for Checkout.
BEN PU
08.2006-05.2009 / ITHACA, NY & BEIJING, CHINA CHC, MANAGING DIRECTOR; TIMEDIFF, CTO CHC Hospitality Consultants is a profitable student run consultancy servicing hospitality related firms domestically and abroad. Promoted to MD role from director of IT in 2008. TimeDiff is a startup offering college admissions consultations services in China. Work includes leadership of 15 developers up to incorporation in 2009.
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TECH SKILLS.
INTERESTS.
06.2006-08.2007 / WALTHAM, MA VERIZON, SOFTWARE ARCHITECT INTERN Developed two web applications that were put into production. GWT, Java, Perl, etc.
JAVA, C++, AWK, R, C, PYTHON, BASH, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, PHP, SQL, PERL, VB, C#, SVN, SML, MATLAB ALGORITHMIC TRADING FINANCE, ECONOMICS GRAPH THEORY, SOCIOLOGY CONSULTING, TEAMWORK CONCERT PIANO, ELECTRONICA TRAVEL
05.2005-08.2005 / SHANGHAI, CHINA ISSI SHANGHAI, TECHNOLOGY INTERN 03.2004-05.2005 / LEXINGTON, MA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT GROUP, FOUNDER 05.2004-08.2004 / CAMBRIDGE, MA HARVARD MEDICAL, RESEARCH INTERN
EDUCATION.
AWARDS.
SAT.
09.2005-05.2009 / ITHACA, NY CORNELL UNIVERSITY, B.S. Computer Science Served as a teaching assistant for Artificial Intelligence (INFO172), Networks (ECON204), and Systems Programming (CS316). Specialized in Graph Theory and Finance. Member of the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, a project in Natural Language Processing. Member of Cornell Alpha Fund. National Merit Scholarship, Finalist and Recipient Massachusetts State Regional Policy, 4th at statewide MATH IIC 800, SAT I Verbal 790, SAT I Math 740