About Me
| Position: |
CEO of Alpha Star Research |
| Location: |
New York, London, and Hong Kong |
| Hometown: |
Swatow |
| Cities Lived: |
Swatow, Shanghai, Beijing, Boston, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Miami,
Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and London |
| Human Languages: |
Teochew (native), English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Japanese |
| Computer Languages: |
Python, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, C#, Java, Pascal, PHP/Hack, HTML, CSS, LaTeX |
| Email: |
sinyaleesf[at]gmail[dot]com |
Work Experience
| 2023- |
Alpha Star Research, AI and trading |
Founder and CEO |
| 2022-2023 |
Citadel Securities, alpha research |
Research Engineer |
| 2020-2021 |
Meta, Facebook and Instagram shops |
Senior Software Engineer |
| 2017-2019 |
Amazon, Twitch browse and discovery |
Software Engineer |
| 2015-2016 |
TeleVeh, automatic driving |
Founder and CEO |
Education
| 2014-2016 |
Brown University, Computer Science |
Master of Science |
| 2010-2014 |
Tsinghua University, Yao Class |
Undergraduate |
| 2013 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EECS |
Undergraduate |
Academic Research
My research interests are cryptography and game theory, especially in
mechanism design. When I was in college I was mentored by Turing Award laureates
Andrew Yao and Silvio Micali. I have two published research papers.
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