Junhua Chen

Computer Science and mathematics student and enthusiast

Doncaster East, Victoria, Australia

About

Aspiring computer science and mathematics student with wide range of interests.

Experience

  • Quantitative Researcher at Jane Street
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Student at Caltech
    Jul 2024 - Oct 2024 · 4 mos

    Machine Learning Research Intern, supervised by Dr. Julius Berner and Prof. Anima Anandkumar. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07081 accepted to ICLR 2025

  • Quantitative Research Intern at Jane Street
    Jul 2023 - Sep 2023 · 3 mos

    Underwent extensive training in financial theory on topics ranging from asset pricing to market microstructure, including significant amounts of hands-on trading simulations. Used modern machine learning (ML) and statistical methods to analyse various financial datasets and make useful predictions. Gained insight on various ML methods and how these methods must be adapted for use in the financial setting.

  • Software Developer Internship at Optiver
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 · 4 mos

    Worked as software engineer in risk department. Completed end-to-end software development cycle, from discussing requirements with risk stakeholders to production devOps. Used proprietary C++ server framework to implement statistical risk model from scratch and rigorously test for correctness. Studied financial theory and understood engineering best-practices for large codebases.

  • Tutor at AIOC school of excellence at Australian Maths Trust
    Dec 2020 - Dec 2020 · 1 mo

    Tutor at the Informatics School of Excellence, a ten-day annual camp hosting the 25 top students at the Australian Informatics Olympiad.