Annie Chen
Class of 2028
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- Email: xichen4@andrew.cmu.edu
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- A New Academic Year at MSCF
- Alumni Reflect on the MSCF Program’s 30th Anniversary
- Breaking Barriers, Building Leaders: Women in Quant Finance
- Data Science in Finance
- Financial Engineering Salary
- High Stakes and Fair Values: CMU Students Face Off in the 2026 Market Making Game
- How to Become a Quant
- Introducing the MSCF Quantitative Assessment
- MSCF 30th Anniversary Celebration
- MSCF Advisory Board Member, Roni Israelov receives the 2024 Peter L. Bernstein Award
- MSCF Hosts 2025 Panel for Women in Data Science Pittsburgh
- MSCF Hosts 2nd Annual Datathon: Advancing Experiential Learning and Industry Connections
- MSCF Welcomes Rhonda Khan as Communication and Leadership Instructor and Coach
- MSCF Welcomes Shelli Faber as Associate Director of Career Services
- Quantbot Classroom Naming
- Squarepoint Foundation Deepens Partnership MSCF Through $100K Gift to Support Future Leaders
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What do architecture, circuit designs and financial markets have in common? None reveal their logic at first glance. I graduated from Rice University with a major in Electrical and Computational Engineering and minors in Financial Computation and Modeling and Statistics. My path started from architecture, to engineering and now quantitative finance has been driven by the same across increasingly complex systems: why and then how. At Rice, I learned to decompose complex systems through circuits, signal processing and EEG/EMG research. Throughout my internship, I applied that mindset to mortgage prepayment behavior, interest-rate risk and equity signal selection. My curiosity pushed me to ask and my skepticism pushed me to test. My skills in statistical modeling, machine learning, and signal processing enable me to turn fragmented data into structured insights and improve as I learn. Outside academics, I love photography, traveling and snowboarding. Photography trains me to observe hidden patterns and delicate details. Snowboarding teaches me that uncertainty is not something to eliminate, but something to read, adjust to, and move through. I am especially interested in market-facing opportunities across FICC, macro, systematic trading, strategy and risk, where data, behavior and uncertainty meet. I would welcome any chance to connect with professionals who enjoy questioning assumptions, uncovering market signals, and applying research to practical decisions.