Alexander Liu

Experience

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  Montgomery County Youth Volunteers Club

  Sept 2020 - May 2024

  Co-Founder

  Direct club operations since its founding, organized volunteering efforts for dozens of volunteers; led projects and helped arrange partnership with the county D.E.P. to clean the community.

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  Blair National Circuit Debate

  Aug 2021 - May 2024

  Created lessons and taught underclassmen, many of whom qualified for the Tournament of Champions; Competed at the Gold Tournament of Champions, the highest level of public forum debate.

  • Captain

    Sept 2022 - May 2024

  • Junior Captain

    Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
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  Silver Chips Online

  Nov 2021 - May 2024

  Edited the work of junior writers, including argumentation and fact checking, and led workshops to help junior writers write more persuasive and well researched opinion articles Researched and published over 30 stories on the school website covering topics from politics to sports, incorporating interviews and academic journal articles.

  • Opinions & Editorials Editor

    Jun 2023 - May 2024

  • Staff Writer

    Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
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  University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

  May 2023 - Aug 2023

  Research Intern

  Analyzed frequency of bragging in earnings calls of Russell 1000 companies by fine tuning transformer-based neural networks, which outperformed large language models such as GPT-3.5. Resaerch was recognized by the Washington Academy of Science

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  Brown Consulting Club

  Sept 2024 - now

  Project Analyst

  Client: Walmart