Eric Zhu
Quantitative Research Intern at Boothbay Fund Management LLC- Claim this Profile
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Boothbay Fund Management LLC
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United States
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Quantitative Research Intern
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Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
New York Quantitative Research Intern for the Risk Team @ Boothbay Fund Management LLC • Quantitative analyst intern at a $2 billion multi-strategy hedge fund. • Part of a 5-person Risk Management Team for which I developed and implemented advanced performance metrics for investment strategies, enhancing the evaluation process of over 140 portfolio managers' performance. • Leveraged Python and SQL to create efficient functions capable of analyzing daily returns data and generating critical… Show more Quantitative Research Intern for the Risk Team @ Boothbay Fund Management LLC • Quantitative analyst intern at a $2 billion multi-strategy hedge fund. • Part of a 5-person Risk Management Team for which I developed and implemented advanced performance metrics for investment strategies, enhancing the evaluation process of over 140 portfolio managers' performance. • Leveraged Python and SQL to create efficient functions capable of analyzing daily returns data and generating critical metrics for assessing investment strategy performance, aiding in the manager selection process. • Developed innovative techniques to derive positive semi-definite covariance matrices from incomplete daily returns data. • Implemented convex optimization algorithms to optimize portfolio allocation based on the Sortino Ratio, effectively determining theoretical optimal weights for manager allocation with respect to risk-adjusted returns. Show less
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Stanford University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Intern (Immigration Policy Lab)
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Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
Stanford, California, United States • Analyzed and verified data on various state-level immigration policies to determine their correlation with the outcomes of immigrant populations such as their participation in societal institutions like public education and healthcare. • Collected, organized, and coded 20+ large data sets (2000+ multidimensional datapoints) with SQL and R and created visualizations using R. • Conducted literature reviews and external research to determine independent and control variables to be used in… Show more • Analyzed and verified data on various state-level immigration policies to determine their correlation with the outcomes of immigrant populations such as their participation in societal institutions like public education and healthcare. • Collected, organized, and coded 20+ large data sets (2000+ multidimensional datapoints) with SQL and R and created visualizations using R. • Conducted literature reviews and external research to determine independent and control variables to be used in the lab's models. Show less
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NeuroNav
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Medical Device
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Marketing Intern
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Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Palo Alto, California, United States • Served as the head of content creation for company social media pages and monthly newsletter. • Created advertising content for company use with Canva and other graphic editors. • Ran marketing experiments which involved creating and tracking marketing campaigns to measure their effectiveness and ROI. Then compiled reports based on analysis of results which led to large-scale changes in company marketing. • Wrote monthly blog articles to be published in the newsletter.
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Steve & Kate's Camp
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Camp Counselor
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Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
New York, United States
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Boston University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Intern
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Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Used Python to conduct a computational research project modeling the effects of epilepsy and seizures on the dentate gyrus neural network • Produced a scientific poster board and website which I presented at an end of summer symposium to an audience of 100+ • Analyzed and visualized complex data sets using NumPy and Pandas packages.
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Education
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Stanford University
Bachelor's degree, Mathematical and Computational Science Major (GPA: 4.0) -
Hunter College High School
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Hunter College