Xiaotian(Mark) Cao

Experience

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  Accenture

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  BPO Intern

  Fully understood the functions of BPO department, and crafted process instructions for workflows and system usage; Managed budget forms for contract projects, and forecasted costs and revenues for projects in various stages each month; Updated the executive condition of contracts monthly, compiled monthly costs and compared them with estimates to look into the causes

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  Huatai Securities Co., Ltd.

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Investment Intern

  Conducted company valuation analysis and constructed DCF, P/E ,and P/S model for start-up medical firms, including detailed analysis of future revenue and costs, in an investment of $150M; Initiated to find ideal investment targets and conducted research of industry sectors and peer companies to analyze market size, corporate performance, technical barriers and business strategy; Coordinated business due diligence of target companies, surveyed details of supply chain, production, marketing and human resources and wrote reports of investments. Show less

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  Homaer Financial

  May 2020 - Sept 2020

  Private Equity Analyst & Developer

  Researched US Unicorn companies, wrote reports for demonstration, and raised investment funds worth 15 million USD.Designed a strategy of selecting and trading the newly-listed stocks in HKSE by analyzing both quantitative and qualitative factors and back-testing the performance of different combinations in Python and achieved success on the company App.Established a hedge fund rating system with 50 factors included, captured online data with Python, designed functions to process unstructured data, and applied multivariate regression to assign weights, resulting in a 5% increase in annual return. Show less

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  Everbright Securities

  Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  Quantitative Trader

  Established valuation models of OTC derivatives with Monte Carlo Simulation and the Black-Scholes model with Python by forecasting volatility with MA, EWMA, and GARCH, and offered three snowball options of CSI 500 with an average HPR of 2.8%.Designed data interaction and operation interface with Python, to trade futures in Shanghai Stock Exchange, resulting in a 90% drop in the time of transmitting real-time data and a 100% increase in order executions up to 1,000 within one second.Developed industry rotation strategy based on industry prosperity; divided stocks with k-means, logistic regression, decision tree and neural network with MATLAB; selected 2 stocks accordingly to offer a simple shark-fin option with a collective profit of 1 million. Show less

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  Lingjun Investment , LLP

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Quantitative Research Analyst

  Detected trading signals of CTA strategies for commodity futures from fundamental perspectives, and used regressions model to analyze its impact on the price of recent month and far month contracts.Used Python to obtain historical data and generate databases with 1 million data, removed the seasonal impact of inventory data by year-on-year and trigonometric functions and eliminated the trend impact of price with the ARIMA model.Synthesized trading signals by exploiting clustering and PCA to improve the model’s running speed for minute-level transactions. Show less

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  China Minsheng Banking Corp.ltd

  Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

  Corporate Banking Trainee-International Settlement

  Maintained domestic and foreign account information, along with their revenue and expenditure data, using SQL to merge, correct and store historical data, and realized the automatic processing flow of confirmation inquiry business.Designed the judgment logic of data retrieval between different systems to optimize the revenue and expenditure declaration system, which reduced the workload of manual review by 30%.

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  Ridge Security Technology Inc.

  May 2023 - Aug 2023

  Frontend Developer
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  Nexa AI

  Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

  Full Stack Engineer
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  BlockFish

  Dec 2023 - now

  Artificial Intelligence Engineer

  Focused on the application of artificial intelligence in gaming, committed to creating unique gaming experiences.Responsible for the development of backend services and tools for games, utilizing AI technology to optimize gameplay and enhance player interaction experience.Worked closely with UI designers and game designers to ensure an aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly game interface.