Yuchen Xu
Washington,DC
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Local Services Business Strategy Intern
Bytedance
Shanghai
07.2024 - 08.2024
- Conducted comprehensive market research, analyzing market size, growth rates, financial performance, competitor moves, and identifying potential growth opportunities.
- Helped to create and present business strategy updates to the senior management team in weekly meetings, driving informed decision-making and strategic adjustments.
- Designed tailored business strategies to improve key conversion targets for local businesses across various industries, such as increasing sales and store visits for the catering industry, optimizing lead generation and sales for financial services, and enhancing both sales and lead acquisition for the travel sector.
- Conducted interviews with industry experts from Google and Meta, leveraging their insights to refine and inspire ByteDance's own business expansion approaches.
Quantitative Research Intern
Guangzhou Legend Quantitative Investment Fund Mana
Guangzhou, Guangdong
07.2023 - 09.2023
- Assisted in the development of quantitative trading strategies, such as FOF (Fund of Funds) and high-frequency strategies, helping to achieve a 7% return on one of the company's products.
- Collected and organized data, drafted reports, and documents.
- Created charts, graphs, and frameworks to demonstrate our product performance to clients. The content included volatility, drawdown, net value, Sharpe ratio, etc.
- Introduced different fund products and their corresponding investment strategies and historical performance to new clients and financial service institutions, such as securities firms, banks, etc.
Intern, Securities Business Department
CITIC Securities
Guangzhou, Guangdong
07.2021 - 09.2021
- Assisted the business department in achieving completion of product sales performance and collaborated with multiple fund companies.
- Prepared various reports, documents, and presentations for daily morning meetings. Summarized key points from research reports on the stock market and interpreted results. Proficiently used office software to better organize and present study summaries and results.
- Conducted in-depth research on industries such as real estate, semiconductor, and new energy companies, addressing questions from leaders, colleagues, and clients.
- Studied government policies and macroeconomic events to guide individual stock analysis, wrote reports, summarized company information, and business performance for my supervisor and colleagues.
Commodities Market Research Intern
Guangzhou Yi Sheng
Guangzhou, Guangdong
06.2021 - 07.2021
- Assisted commodities traders in achieving positive returns, helped the company acquire 5 new clients, bringing new revenue to the company.
- Achieved second place in the company's commodities trading simulation competition with a 15% return, receiving the corresponding award.
- Prepared various reports, charts, and written summaries, clearly summarizing research results and effectively using office software to present my understanding and investment strategies.
- Analyzed markets like gold and oil, created market introductions for clients, explained relevant policies and investment strategies, and maintained sensitivity to macroeconomic information, providing unique insights on how overseas events impact the commodities market.
Education
Master of Science - Applied Economics
John Hopkings University
Washington, DC05-2026
Bachelor of Science - Business Economics
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA06.2024
Skills
- Proficient in various office software such as Excel, Word, Google Docs, etc
- Knowledge of different programming languages such as Python, R, Stata, etc
- Data analysis
- Time management
- Flexible thinking
- Attention to detail
- Learning ability
- Problem-solving skills
- Team work
- Speak both Mandarin and English
- Fitness
- Basketball
- Music
- Reading
Timeline
Local Services Business Strategy Intern
Bytedance
07.2024 - 08.2024
Quantitative Research Intern
Guangzhou Legend Quantitative Investment Fund Mana
07.2023 - 09.2023
Intern, Securities Business Department
CITIC Securities
07.2021 - 09.2021
Commodities Market Research Intern
Guangzhou Yi Sheng
06.2021 - 07.2021
Master of Science - Applied Economics
John Hopkings University
Bachelor of Science - Business Economics
University of California - San Diego
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