Daniel Lee
Class of 2028
Contact
- Email: dlee5@andrew.cmu.edu
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- 2025 MSCF Trading Competition
- 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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Biography
Mathematics taught me to reason rigorously about abstract and complex problems by emphasizing structure and invariance. Throughout my practical experience, I have always aimed to uncover underlying structures using mathematical frameworks and to scale solutions with computational tools, ensuring both elegance and practicality. I earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Haverford College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and receiving High Honors from the Mathematics Department. For my senior thesis under Professor Joshua Sabloff, I applied computational methods and machine learning to knot theory and low-dimensional topology, generating novel insights. Previously, I conducted research in Topological Data Analysis for signal processing and network structure and contributed to LLM projects, including the development of a lightweight generative grading system for evaluating textual and visual responses. Outside academia, I gained industry experience through both advisory and trading roles. I interned on the Deals M&A team at PwC. Afterward, I spent two summers in proprietary trading at Yuanta Securities, a leading market maker in Taiwan, as a quant research intern supporting the derivatives desk and ETF team. I am especially interested in quantitative research and systematic trading. I look forward to connecting virtually or in person!