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More detailed CV, references and publications available upon request.
Basics
| Name | Junhua Chen |
Work
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2024.07 - 2024.09 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology
Worked under Dr. Julius Berner and Prof. Anima Anandkumar. Published paper 'Sequential Controlled Langevin Diffusions' at ICLR 2025.
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2023.07 - 2023.09 Quantitative Research Intern
Jane Street Capital
Applied machine learning and statistical methods to financial prediction problems.
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2022.06 - 2022.09 Software Engineering Intern - Risk Department
Optiver
Full end-to-end software development cycle. Implemented and tested statistical risk models using proprietary C++ server framework.
Education
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2024.10 - 2025.06 -
2021.10 - 2024.06
Awards
- 2024.10
Internal Graduate Studentship
Trinity College, Cambridge
GBP 56,000 full scholarship awarded for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science.
- 2022.04
Citadel European Datathon - First Prize
Citadel
Won first prize and €10,000 as a first-year undergraduate against advanced teams.
- 2020.09
International Olympiad of Informatics - Bronze Medal
International Olympiad of Informatics
Represented Australia, placing 118/343 worldwide.
- 2020.03
Australian Mathematical Olympiad - Gold Medal
Australian Mathematics Trust
Top 18 out of ~200 selected high school mathematics students in Australia and New Zealand.
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python (PyTorch, JAX, Scikit-learn, Django) | |
| C++ |
| Languages | |
| English (native proficiency) | |
| Chinese (native proficiency) |
Languages
| English | |
| Native |
| Chinese | |
| Native |
Interests
| Mathematics and Machine Learning | |
| Generative Modelling | |
| Probabilistic Methods | |
| Statistical Learning |