Yixi Zhou’s CV

Yixi (Xander) Zhou’s Resume

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Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Visiting student in VISP program, Computer Science (Jan 2025 – Expected May 2025)

ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

Bachelor of Science Candidate, Computer Science and Technology, School of Information Science and Technology (Sept 2022 – Expected June 2026)

  • Outstanding Student Cadre: for managing tutoring group (2022 – 2023, 2023 – 2024)
  • Outstanding Individual in Social Practice: for team leader position organizing project for 30 students (July 2023)
  • Outstanding Individual in Industry Research: for team leader position organizing project for 30 students (July 2024)
  • Academic Interest: Data science and data mining for economic and business historical and trend analyses.

Experience

ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

Undergraduate Researcher, Financial Intelligence Laboratory | PI: Haipeng Zhang (Sept 2023 – Present)

  • Conducting research on human behavioral data mining and fintech modeling using LLM and data mining techniques.
  • Using Python for data cleaning, processing, and visualization in projects.
  • Third Author: “Fine-grained Classification of a Million Life Trajectories from Wikipedia by Fusing Syntactic Graph.” Submitted to IJCAI 2025.
  • Participant in the project “Paths of A Million People,” presented at ICWSM 2025.

Social Practice Project, Yan’an, Shaanxi Province

Group Leader (July 9, 2023 – July 21, 2023)

  • Led a project of 30 students researching the model of high-quality transformation of the Yan’an economy.
  • Coordinated activities and discussions with local government departments.

Industry Research Project, Shanghai, China

Group Leader (July 30, 2024 – Aug 2, 2024)

  • Led a project researching Fintech industries in Shanghai.
  • Coordinated data collection and completed the research report.

Activities

2024 American Mathematical Modeling Contest (ICM)

Personal Project: Sustainability Insurance Modeling in Extreme Weather (Feb. 2024)

  • Created crawlers for data collection and built model architecture using Python and MATLAB.
  • Independently completed a project paper visualizing results using Matplotlib.

2024 CTB Harvard Global Youth Research Innovation Forum

Participated in organizing evaluations and discussions (Mar. 2024)

2024 PWC Polytechnic Student Challenge Camp STEM Day

Completed a report on Generative AI and won Second Place (May 25, 2024)

Academic Project: Named Entity Recognition in Financial Technology

(May 2024)

  • Developed algorithms for extracting named entities using Python.

Quadratic Programming Solvers Research Project

(Jan 2025)

  • Conducted analysis of QP solvers and developed enhanced algorithms.

Sina Weibo Social Media Engagement Prediction Challenge

(Jan 2025)

  • Designed a predictive system achieving 7th place in the competition.

Skills and Awards

  • Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)
  • Computer Skills: C/C++, Python, MATLAB, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, SQL
  • Awards: Third Prize in English Speech Contest for Young Students (2024)