STEVEN XU

UCSD

BS in Data Science and Economics

• GPA: 3.89/4.0
• Relevant course work: The Practice and Application of Data Science

Research/Outreach Internship

PolyLabs Inc

Remote

Jun 2025 - September 2025

• Assist in writing an AI pipeline for generating social media posts. Conducted an A/B testing comparing its effectiveness to regular posting strategies.
• Worked on multiple projects and conducted research on how AI could be used among students. Designed and conducted outreach strategy and wrote general email template. Currently working with schools from England.
• Assist to design and debug product websites. Assist in managing product release date and timeline.
• Drafted content calendar throughout the launching product period. Developed multiple KPIs to evaluate our effectiveness for our marketing campaign.

Director of Quantitative Analysis

Sustainable Investment Group

San Diego, California

Sep 2024 - Present

• Worked on a project that creates a stock network between stocks between industries. Developing an algorithm to predict a stock trend using relevant stocks by statistical variables. Created a website to showcase our results.
• Worked on a project using CAPM residual return from stocks and clustered them through PCA and t-SNE. Designed a portfolio simulator by using a rolling window of seven days. Our designed portfolio outperformed S&P 500 in the past 2 years by 600%
• Participated in UCLA DataFest. I used Vector Auto-Regression to forecast future centroid in a neighborhood given leasing data and visualized our result through MatplotLib and Plotly.

Curriculum Officer/Member

DECA

San Jose, California

Jun 2021 – May 2024

• Managed weekly workshops, introduced new members to events, gave lectures on basic business knowledges.
• Competitive achievements include: #5 in Principles of Finance (‘22 CA), #4 in Virtual Business Challenge: Accounting (‘22 western region); qualify for and attend International Career Development Conference.