Xingzhong Xu

45 River Dr S #407,

Jersey City, NJ 07310

201-888-4979 xu.xeno@gmail.com

www.sirxu.com

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Farseer farseer.sirxu.com Jan 2014 -- Present
- Develop a Django application to predict stocks’ future performances through machine learning.
- Historical daily prices as well as technique indicators (MACD, RSI, etc.) are used to construct the feature vectors for statistic regression.
- Technology stack includes Scikit-learn, Pandas, TA- lib, Django, and Linode.
LEAPS Checker options.sirxu.com Nov 2013 - Present
- Develop a Python application to monitor the abnormal open interests of financial instruments - Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities (LEAPS).
- The daily captured data will be normalized, rank, and published online to provide trading signal.
- Technology stack includes Pandas, jinja2 and AWS.
yesgoody reward demo.yesgoody.com Mar 2012 - Nov 2013
- Co-founded the firm yesgoody, which dedicated to improving the efficiencies of local merchants’ daily reward program through cloud services.
- Designed and developed minimum viable product (MVP) - yesgoody reward, which manages and tracks the business rewards program.
- Technology stack includes Node.js, Backbone.js and MongoDB.
Cloud data collector 2012 - 2013
- Lead and manage an open source project which collect and analyze general purpose timestamped data on real time.
Semantic signal processing Sep 2010 - Dec 2012
- Led a team of 8 members on SSP project.
- Developed a software to model signal processing module through semantics and ontology.
- Developed plug-ins for GCC and Clang to extract and analyze the semantics of abstract syntax tree (AST).

EDUCATION

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering [3.8/4], 2011 - present
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering [3.7/4], May 2011
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Bachelor of Science, May 2009

RESEARCH

Machine Learning
- Recursive Bayesian estimation based on stochastic context-free grammar, advised by Dr. Hong Man.
Publication
- Fangming He, Wei Wang, Xingzhong Xu, Lei Zhou, Hong Man: A network coding method for channel signatures based key distribution. ICC 2012: 5036-5041
- Guang Yang, Xingzhong Xu, Hong Man: Optimum image fusion via sparse representation. WOCC 2011: 1-4

TECH. SKILLS

Data Science: Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Scikit-learn, NLTK, NetworkX
Back-end: Linux, AWS, Heroku, GAE[Python], MySQL, MongoDB, Django
Front-end: Angular.js, d3.js
Programming Language: Python, Javascript/Node.js, Matlab, C/C++, Scala
Trading: Algorithm trading on Equity, Options and Futures