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About Me

Hello, I'm Trung, currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Thank you for stopping by! I am a self-taught programmer and a fresh graduate with a master's degree in finance from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

My passions and areas of expertise include finance, mathematics, statistics, and programming. At the moment, I'm trying to expand my knowledge into deep learning.

I enjoy keeping a balance between meticulousness and practicality. During my free time, I love to work on my personal projects and learn new technologies. My ambition is to become a Full Stack Quant in the very near future. Let's see if I can make it!

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Projects

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Experience

• Sep 2020 - Present

  Venice Center for Economic and Risk Analytics

  Research Assistant

  • Evaluated random forest models in predicting return directions of cryptocurrencies based on a set of sentiment indicators, utilizing Python, Scikit-Learn, and Statsmodels. Best model achieved a 62% accuracy and helped simulate a trading strategy that outperformed holding by 479% daily during a 500-day test period.
  • Forecasted the defaults of Italian SMEs using R with 87% accuracy, employing random forests and a sampling technique for unbalanced datasets that reduced the error rate by 66%.
  • Classified sentiment of 1M+ investing tweets from StockTwits using Python, making extensive use of regex (text processing), tf-idf (vectorization), truncated SVD (dimension reduction), and random forests (classification).

• Feb 2018 - July 2018

  UrBox - Digital Rewards & Loyalty Solution

  Operation Manager Assistant

  • Executed loyalty campaigns for large customers such as SeABank, Grab, administered the startup’s e-commerce website.
  • Standardized procedures for establishing new partnerships to cut the total time required for the process by 80%.

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Education

• Sep 2018 - Oct 2020

  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

  Master of Science in Finance, 110/110 Cum Lode (Highest Honors)

  • Coursework: Stochastic Calculus, Statistics, Econometrics, Derivative Pricing, Black-Scholes Equation, Monte Carlo Simulation, Finite Differences, Time Series Models, Object-Oriented Programming (Python), Portfolio Optimization.
  • Awards: Grant for Summer Trading Bootcamp at Stevens Institute, U.S. (Top 5 of Class 2018), VERA Internship Grant for Talented Students, High-Achieving International Student Scholarship.

• May 2019 - Jun 2019

  Stevens Institute of Technology

  Visiting Student, Bloomberg Terminal Summer Bootcamp

• May 2019 - Jun 2019

  Foreign Trade University

  Bachelor of Science in International Economics

• Sep 2007 - Jun 2014

  Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted

  Mathematics

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Get in Touch

Whether it is a work opportunity, a collaboration request, or just to say hello, please do not hesitate to contact me via: