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Oscar Choi

About

Choi Hei Wang (Oscar) · Hong Kong · choiheiwang@gmail.com · @terrific_owl · Discord moonchw

700B+
stored A-share and crypto rows in the 2026-10-05 snapshot of the research platform I architected
≈80%
fewer tasks with rule violations vs a prompted 4B LLM on a held-out synthetic tool-use testbed; joint final-year research
17–21×
archived warm complex128 calls on 24–28-qubit observables vs the project's own 32-thread CPU engine, with default compensated GPU products
904th
globally at IMC Prosperity 4, with Team SHDC
#52
Open-source contributor to FatQat (spaceqat/fatqat#52, merged upstream)

I study Computer Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and graduate in 2027. Most of my work is quant research infrastructure: data platforms researchers can trust, and research tools where AI can propose and critique but never decides what counts as a result. I am looking for quant developer, quant research, trading, software engineering, full-stack and AI engineering roles, and I am interested in quantum computing software: I wrote the GPU backend for an open-source quantum simulator.

Education

Aug 2023 – Jul 2027 (expected)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.Sc. in Computer Science; Minors in Data Analytics and Informatics, and Business

Final-year project (Prof. XU Hong): co-developed Bayesian scoring and conformal risk control for a 4B LLM; reduced tasks with rule violations by about 80% versus a prompted agent on a held-out synthetic tool-use testbed.

Relevant courses: Compiler Construction (A), Operating Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer Organization, Software Engineering, Formal Languages & Automata, Programming Languages, Probability, Statistics, Linear Algebra. Currently: Quantitative Methods for Financial Derivatives; Quantum Computer Systems (postgraduate).

Experience

Jan 2026 – present

Lead Developer, Quant Research Team, CUHK Quant Trading Society, Hong Kong

  • As the team’s sole developer, architected its market-data platform: 700B+ stored A-share and crypto rows in the 2026-10-05 snapshot, not a unique-row count. The platform also supports Polymarket, outside that sum.
  • Built its Python/HTTP/SQL query service with version-pinned reads and point-in-time checks. A separate 420,000-row concurrency fixture kept all 23 of 23 commits with 12 readers and 5 writers.
  • Led implementation of the team’s data-quality work: duplicate cleanup and checks that prevent look-ahead leakage into research data.
  • Built access controls in C, monitoring, alerts and operator documentation for shared research infrastructure.
  • Built a Go HTTP/WebSocket relay with request validation, TLS termination and address scrubbing.
  • Built guarded AI coding agents with recoverable deletion and approvals; tested the guard against independently identified bypass cases.
Jun 2025 – present

BRAIN Research Consultant (Gold level), WorldQuant, remote, part-time

  • Researched and submitted 11 equity alphas in July 2025; the 5 October 2026 snapshot records a best individual out-of-sample Sharpe of 2.18 in BRAIN simulation.
  • Built Python tooling that manages simulation runs (concurrency limits, checkpoint/resume).
Teaching

STEAM Programming Tutor, Christian Alliance S. C. Chan Memorial College, part-time

  • Taught programming and STEAM projects to 50+ students, designed curriculum materials and hands-on coding activities, and mentored student teams that won two programming awards.
  • Also Head of Discipline & Tutor at Advanced Learning Centre (2023–).

Awards

  • IMC Prosperity 4 (Team SHDC), 2026: 904th globally, 18th in Hong Kong.
  • Hong Kong Universities Web3 Quant Trading Hackathon, 2025: initiated the project; lead architect.
  • MonsoonSIM Enterprise Resource Management Competition, 2025: 3rd place.
  • Microsoft Master Code Competition and Teens Can Code Championship, 2019: champion (both).

Skills

Languages
PythonC++CSQLTypeScriptJavaScriptJava
Frontend
ReactViteTailwind CSSReact RouterHTML/CSS
Backend & data
Node.js/ExpressREST APIsJWT authPrismaFastAPIDuckDBApache Arrow/ParquetSQLite
Infra & tools
LinuxDockerGitsingle sign-onmonitoring
Quant, ML & AI
NumPypandasPyTorchQlibfactor researchmarket microstructuremarket makingconvex optimizationgenetic programmingconformal predictionClaude CodeCodexMCP
Spoken
Cantonese (native)English (fluent)Mandarin (fluent)

Outside work

Off the clock: pianoclick or press A to K, Pokémon TCG, a bit of gaming, and time with my partner.