(Shirlina) Xuan Li
Vancouver,British Columbia
Summary
Highly driven and analytically minded professional with a strong passion for quantitative trading and financial markets. Independently trade stocks and options in the U.S. and Chinese markets, applying data-driven strategies and risk management techniques. A rapid learner with a unique academic trajectory—entered college at 15, transitioned from an early specialization in music to mathematics, and is now pursuing a PhD in statistics. This diverse background fosters adaptability, problem-solving skills, and a deep curiosity for market dynamics. Eager to leverage quantitative methods and algorithmic strategies to optimize trading performance and generate financial returns.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Database Analyst
Minviro Ltd
Shanghai
12.2023 - 05.2024
- In charge of SQL database management, including streamlining the upgrading impact factor data from different data sources.
- Conducted LCA data gathering and quality checking from papers and open sources.
- Conducted an analysis of China's electricity impact factors.
- Built LCA models for different products, through Excel and software.
- Researched global policies in the area of sustainability, with a main focus on the EU's new battery regulation and CBAM.
Entrepreneurship
Anhui Guofu Ecological Engineering Technology Co.
Hefei, Anhui
07.2023 - 11.2023
- Built an Administrative and Warehouse Management System, an Equipment Management System, and a File Organizing System on the platform.
- Established the marketing model and annual strategic plan, and set up and managed a team of 20 people.
- Assisted the e-commerce team in completing the production of short videos, articles, and other promotional work; independently built the company's website.
- I built a WeChat public account and a WeChat small program for e-commerce.
Data Scientist
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
Shanghai, Zurich
03.2023 - 07.2023
- As a main member of the Top K project team, I was in charge of data cleaning, fuzzy matching, and finding the optimal optimization parameters for our AI model.
- Completed data analysis of customer clustering based on different parameters (the main parameters include similar industry, similar name, address distance within 1 km, etc.).
- Completed the construction of various data visualization dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud according to business requirements.
- Led a Data Science and AI study group across the China DBS department.
Global Digital Trainee
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
Shanghai, Zurich
09.2021 - 03.2023
- Built and deployed the service scheduling algorithm logic on Salesforce.
- Completed the prediction for future service labor demand trends in each region using time series models and machine learning models.
- Completed the natural language matching algorithm model for iObject data migration; set up an automated KNIME workflow to automate iObject matching through 'profile description,' and migrated to SAP.
- Completed the construction of a visualization dashboard for data forecasting and early warning of BOM raw material inventory used partially or completely on phase-out products.
- Completed the visualization and data analysis of real-time sales data monitoring (a series of data analyses from activities, leads, winning/losing orders, deposits, to final payment).
- Completed the real-time data warning dashboard for each sales representative's responsible customers (the main warnings are retained shipment, retained inventory, and overdue final payment).
- Built automated master data governance applications; automated the execution and correction of over 100 data rules related to customer, product, and service master data through automation in KNIME and machine learning algorithms.
- Tools used include: KNIME, Python, PyCharm, GitHub, SAP, Excel, and Tableau.
Intern (Blockchain Analyst)
Shanghai Onchain Information Technology Co., Ltd
Shanghai
06.2021 - 09.2021
- Calculated and validated mathematical formulas and scenarios based on foreign industry papers.
- Calculated the gold exchange rate formulae based on different cryptocurrencies, and used differential equations to find the equilibrium point and profit/loss turning point in different parameters.
- Responsible for industry trend data analysis and on-chain cross-currency/single-currency data analysis: Dune Analytics (SQL language).
Intern (Data Analyst)
Shanghai Yuqi Network Technology Co
Shanghai
09.2020 - 01.2021
- Processed raw data and built different layers of databases.
- Transformed the business needs into data analysis problems, and presented the outcomes with data visualization.
- In charge of the regular weekly, monthly, and quarterly data analysis, automation, and visualization reports, including retention rate, payment rate, and LTV for the game Dream Dance (MengHuanXuanWu) and Match-3.
Intern (Strategic Partnerships and BD)
Shanghai DaoCloud TechnShology Network Co.
Shanghai
05.2020 - 08.2020
- Was responsible for interfacing with strategic partners, project management within the BD department, and internal team operations.
- Participated in business development processes for financial technology solutions and big data platform solutions.
Education
PhD - Statistics
University of British Columbia
Canada05.2028
MSc - Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing
Oxford University
UK05.2021
BS - Applied Math
Indiana University
USA07.2019
BM - Piano Performance
Indiana University
USA07.2019
Skills
- Matlab, Python, R, JavaScript
- PowerPoint, Word, Excel
- SAP, Jira, Salesforce
- SQL and databases
- KNIME, Tableau
- Experimental design and analysis
- Data visualization
- Unsupervised learning
- Supervised learning
- Time series analysis
- Model evaluation
Research
- University of British Columbia, Cross Validation Techniques for Auto-regressive Time Series, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/QP1-for-submission-/
- University of British Columbia, On the MCC-F1 Metric for Binary Classification, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/QP2-for-submission/
- University of British Columbia, On the Prediction Powered Causal Inference, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/QP3-for-submission/
- University of British Columbia, Variable Selection in Risk Difference Estimation, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/QP3-for-submission/
- University of British Columbia, Total variation denoising package in R, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/TVDPathAlgo
- University of British Columbia, Natural spline application for trendfiltering package in R, https://github.com/zhoumo2716/NaturalSpline
- Oxford University, Case Studies in Mathematical Modeling: Soil Erosion (Advisor: Graham Sander)
- Oxford University, Case Studies in Scientific Computing: Numerical Solution to Poisson Equation (Advisor: Kathryn Gillow)
- Oxford University, Dissertation: Approximation by Monopoles (Advisor: Nick Trefethen)
- Oxford University, Research on Special Topics: On the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, On the Schwarz-Christoffel Transformation
- Oxford University, Group Research on Modeling Topics: Epidemic Modeling, Keller-Segel Model for Chemotaxis Modeling
- University of Chicago, REU National Independent Research Project: The Weierstrass Preparation Theorem and Some Applications, http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2018/REUPapers/Li,Xuan.pdf
Timeline
Database Analyst
Minviro Ltd
12.2023 - 05.2024
Entrepreneurship
Anhui Guofu Ecological Engineering Technology Co.
07.2023 - 11.2023
Data Scientist
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
03.2023 - 07.2023
Global Digital Trainee
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
09.2021 - 03.2023
Intern (Blockchain Analyst)
Shanghai Onchain Information Technology Co., Ltd
06.2021 - 09.2021
Intern (Data Analyst)
Shanghai Yuqi Network Technology Co
09.2020 - 01.2021
Intern (Strategic Partnerships and BD)
Shanghai DaoCloud TechnShology Network Co.
05.2020 - 08.2020
PhD - Statistics
University of British Columbia
MSc - Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing
Oxford University
BS - Applied Math
Indiana University
BM - Piano Performance
Indiana University
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