Rex Liu graduated from the Courant Institute, New York University, with a B.A. and M.S. in Honors Mathematics. His academic journey included PhD-level coursework in Probability Theory, Stochastic Analysis, and Machine Learning. His research focused on Markov Chain Monte Carlo and numerical optimization. Professionally, Rex served as a Lecturer and Research Assistant for an option pricing course and as a Quantitative Analyst Intern at Alpha Squared Capital, where he utilized SARIMAX models to analyze futures commodity price time series. Rex joined the MSCF program to deepen his understanding of finance and to advance his computational expertise for a career in quantitative research.