Grace Yu

Fellow

Oxford SDG Impact Lab•  December 2024 - Present•  Oxford, UK

• Advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through interdisciplinary collaboration, academic expertise, and hands-on, impact-driven projects • First-ever undergraduate student to receive the fellowship

Trading and Risk Management Academy

Qube Research & Technologies•  November 2024 - Present•  Oxford, UK / London, UK

• Completed a four-week intensive course on data, models, risk, and portfolios • Design and manage trading algorithms in teams

Quantitative Research Intern

Chengqi Asset Management•  September 2024 - September 2024•  Shenzhen, China

• Developed an alpha with Sharpe ratio 2.33 using statistical data analysis and ML feature selection algorithms • Expanded 4-feature dataset via transformations and Shapley analysis; Retained top features and generated alphas • Customised and optimised 10+ configuration scripts (.xml) to streamline and automate alpha implementation

E-House Day: Trading

Flow Traders•  September 2024 - September 2024•  Remote

Day-long exposure programme

Affiliated Student Researcher (College-Funded)

Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford•  July 2024 - August 2024•  Oxford, UK

• Modelled voting power dynamics using the Shapley–Shubik power index in weighted voting systems • Analysed decision-making under uncertainty by evaluating coalition probabilities and pivotal voter influence • Investigated fairness and efficiency in voting rule design, optimising system robustness and equity Funded by Somerville College, University of Oxford

Spring into Tech

J.P. Morgan•  April 2024 - April 2024•  London, UK

Week-long exposure programme Received software engineer program summer internship return offer (London 2025, declined)

Discover

Citadel | Citadel Securities•  March 2024 - March 2024•  London, UK

Two-day exposure programme

AI Development Micro-Intern

Legal-Pythia•  December 2023 - December 2023•  Remote

• Tested and implemented large language models with explainable AI to parse and analyse legal databases

Insight: Trading

Jane Street•  April 2023 - April 2023•  London, UK

Week-long exposure programme

T-Spark Challenge: AI+ Human Hand Liveness Detection

Tencent•  July 2022 - August 2022•  Shenzhen, China

• Developed anti-spoofing techniques for Palm Payment using gesture detection, multi-touch analysis, and 3D stereoscopic vision • Optimised focus detection with Laplacian Transform to counter screen-based attacks involving reflections and moiré patterns • Designed, built, and optimised the user interface, simplifying detection gestures based on user feedback

Teaching Assistant

BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour•  August 2021 - April 2022•  Huizhou, China

• Worked part-time as a teaching assistant for AP Statistics in my senior year of high school

T-Spark Challenge: Short-Form Video Recommendation

Tencent•  July 2021 - August 2021•  Shenzhen, China

• Optimised recommendation algorithms with neural networks, enhancing engagement through feature engineering • Analysed 100k user behaviour records (e.g., click-through rates, swipes) to refine features and enhance targeting • Implemented ML architectures (Wide & Deep, GBDT, FCNN); Tuned hyperparameters; Surpassed internal benchmark

T-Spark Future Academy

Tencent•  June 2020 - October 2020•  Shenzhen, China / Hybrid

• Placed 4th / 1300+; Received Tencent YouTu AI Research Lab internship offer (computer vision, flexible start) • Developed a dietary app; Built and optimised a food recognition AI after preprocessing and augmenting a public dataset

University of Oxford

Mathematics and Statistics, MMath - Master of Mathematics•  October 2022 - Present

• Fellow of the SDG Impact Lab, to advance UN SDGs via impact-driven projects; First-ever undergraduate selected • Women in CS Scholarship from Bending Spoons, for merit; 1% (20/1600) under&postgrad in Europe, sole in UK • Catherine Hughes Grant from Somerville College, to fund initiatives for intellectual curiosity and social conscience • Inaugural AI UK Scholar at Oxford Womxn in Computer Science, for leadership and service; Sole undergraduate

BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour

High School Diploma with High Honors•  September 2018 - June 2022•  GPA: 3.9

• Inaugural Global Excellence Student Scholar: full-ride merit scholarship with living stipend, c. USD 150k • SAT 1600/1600; Completed 16 advanced placement (AP), 6 capstone, and 4 honors courses • USAMO Qualifier; USACO Gold Division; PLH (Park Lane Harbour / Passion-Leadership-Honor) Character; Computer Science Student of the Year