Mac Xu

Experience

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  City University of Hong Kong

  Jul 2022 - Sept 2022

  Data Science Research Intern

  - Spearheaded fraud detection and default risk prediction model training, image label classification and large dataset processing - Evaluated performance of Python deep learning models (i.e. Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Convolutional Neural Network, Recurrent Neural Network) with F1 and ROC-AUC scores, attained 90+% theoretical model accuracy

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  Imperial College Investment Society

  Jan 2023 - now

  Queens Tower Capital: Junior Analyst (TMT)

  • Head of Events and Marketing

    May 2023 - now

  • Equity Research Analyst

    Jan 2023 - May 2023
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  Finance Focused

  Jan 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Head of Equities (Global Markets)

    Jul 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Vice President of Equities (Global Markets)

    Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Global Markets Analyst

    Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
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  LordInnov Academy Limited

  Feb 2023 - now

  Deputy Managing Director

  - Co-founded a global innovation and pre-angel investment start-up with 20+ R&D experts, negotiated with government, industry, academia, and research institutes, invested in 10+ emerging built environment and smart cities tech in the Greater Bay Area- Established an incubation platform to orchestrate the collaboration between stakeholders in the deep tech innovation ecosystem, recruited 100+ students, nurtured 4 spin-offs companies, secured overall HKD $10M+ funding

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  ASTRI - Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Data Science Research Summer Intern

  - Utilised open-source repositories to develop Deepfake image detection applications, contrasting performances of customised CNN, DenseNet and fine-tuned VGGFace models, pitched weekly research findings to 3+ local government authorities- Monitored the performance of existing cyber honeypot, extracted quantitative features about global hacker activity and trained SVM and Deep Neural Network models to detect effective attacks achieving 95+% accuracy- Facilitated the development of financial sentiment classification models and multilingual speech recognition with Natural Language Toolkit, interpreted and forecasted market movements. Show less

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  Mizuho

  Dec 2023 - now

  Incoming Summer Analyst

  Global Markets (EMEA)