I didn’t know how to do long division until 8th grade.

I had been spending all my time up until then studying chess and practicing the piano. Actually, I realized I needed to start studying math when I tied for first place at a chess tournament with three other players and the organizer asked me to figure out how much money I had made. I couldn’t’ tell him: I didn’t know how to divide by three.

Fast forward, I started studying math using the Art of Problem Solving textbooks and quickly became very interested in competition math such as the AMC/AIME/USAMO series of competitions which helps determine the USA International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) team. I specialized in Geometry and Combinatorics and ended up even writing a few articles on geometric theorems and techniques on my free time.

I am now majoring in Data Science and Math at the College of William and Mary. I like to take the things I learned from my classes and apply them to real world problems, which is what these projects are really about. I want to use my analytical skills and apply them to solve problems in finance and trading.