Senior Associate at Nomura
Hong Kong
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- Senior Associate at Nomura
- Senior Associate (Fixed Income Analytics) at Lehman Brothers
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- Research Assistant at Indiana University, Bloomington
- IT Consultant at Psychology Department
- Developer (Part time) at GNT International Inc.
- Developer (Part time) at IBM CRL
- Developer (Part time) at Electrical Engineering Department of Qinghua University in Beijing
- Education
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- Indiana University Bloomington
- Peking University
- Peking University
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Xianfeng Song’s Summary
An experienced modeler on varies of systems. Experienced in many modeling technique and simulation skills, including finite difference, finite element, monto carlo method. Specialized in many analytical methods, including asymptotic method, error estimate etc. Good at many mathematical tools, such as matlab, mathematica, maple.
An experienced application developer. Have more than 8 years of Java, C, C++ experience. Have published a Java book by Tsinghua Publishing House. Familiar with bash, python, c#, php, action script, UML.
Xianfeng Song’s Specialties:
Programming languages (Java, C, C++, bash, python, c#, php, action script, C#, UML, java script)
Mathematical tools (matlab, mathematica, maple)
Finance (Derivatives, Financial Statements, Basic Accounting)
Xianfeng Song’s Experience
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Senior Associate
Nomura
(Public Company; NMR; Investment Banking industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
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Senior Associate (Fixed Income Analytics)
Lehman Brothers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LEH; Investment Banking industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
* Front Office - Fixed Income Technology and Analytics
* Role - to support single name credit derivatives trading and strategy development.
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Research Assistant
Indiana University, Bloomington
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — September 2008 (4 years 5 months)
Our research is to understand the biological systems through modeling approach. The models were constructed in partial differential equations and solved by using either finite difference method or finite element method.
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IT Consultant
Psychology Department
(Research industry)
December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)
I designed and developed the group games that are used to explore group behavior when people are encountering competition. The games have client-server architecture and can be played by multi-players. The server side is developed in Java and the client side is developed in Flash.
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Developer (Part time)
GNT International Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — May 2003 (7 months)
I implemented a network file system as part of a Petroleum Exploration System by using Java RMI (remote method invocation) through which the client can randomly access the files on the server. I also developed a customized file open dialog components for the user interface.
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Developer (Part time)
IBM CRL
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — October 2001 (6 months)
I developed the Java user interface for the newly developed SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) client.
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Developer (Part time)
Electrical Engineering Department of Qinghua University in Beijing
(Research industry)
August 2000 — April 2001 (9 months)
The application we developed is a smart power distribution management with the ability to remotely control the power device. My job is to implemented the user interface, which enables users to load and draw all electrical wirings and devices on the map.
Xianfeng Song’s Education
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Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D. , Physics , 2003 — 2008
* Received four A+s in my graduate courses in Indiana University with all others being As.
* Passed Physics Written Candidacy Examination with DISTINCTION (awarded only to exceptional student), Aug. 2004.
* McCormick Science Award (only awarded to 3 students in School of Arts and Science per year), Jul. 2004. -
Peking University
MS , Condensed Matter Physics , 2001 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Student Union Leader
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Peking University
BS , Physics , 1997 — 2001
- Activities and Societies:
- Student Union Leader
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Xianfeng Song’s Interests:
new technology,internet surfing, movie
Xianfeng Song’s Groups:
American Physical Society
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Quant Linked Group (QLG: Wall Street Quants)
Xianfeng Song’s Honors:
* Topcoder algorithm competition, the highest score = 1727 (handle: xsong)
* Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007, Software Design Reginonal Final Competition, finished with the 33th in Boston region
* McCormick Science Grant, July 2004
* Ph.D. Candidacy Examination, passed with distinction, Aug. 2004
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