Jack Wu

Experience

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  Canadian Red Cross

  Jul 2022 - Sept 2022

  Warehouse Technician Assistant

  Worked full-time on a summer contract as an assistant warehouse technician at the Canadian Red Cross in the summer of 2022. Responsibilities ranged from unpacking and assembling new equipment, labelling and entering equipment into the Red Cross database, and other miscellaneous tasks.

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  URO Research EXperience (REX)

  Oct 2023 - now

  Student Researcher

  Participated in a research program designed for undergraduates, performing "theoretical" research regarding the Levenberg-Marquardt alternative training algorithm for feed-forward neural networks with direct application to rainfall-runoff predictions in the field of hydroinformatics. Supervised by UBC first-year PhD student in hydroinformatics, Amit Sinha.

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  Potts Education Studio

  Oct 2023 - now

  Instructor

  Currently employed as a part-time marker and instructor at Potts Education Studio. Responsibilities range from regularly marking batches of student assignments to instructing one-on-one and group classes in mathematics, data science, and physics.

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  Icarus Fund LLC.

  Jun 2024 - now

  Quantitative Analyst Intern

  Performed statistical tests to evaluate the weak-form efficiency market hypothesis. Completed a quantitative analysis of Match Group Inc., including fitting various OLS models and verifying assumptions of such models. Investigated the benefits of momentum in trading, and analyzed MSTs and PMFGs of international stock indices. Fitted and analyzed an ARIMA model to forecast future stock movement.