Kevin Chow

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About me:
As a passionate data enthusiast with over 3 years of experience in financial markets and banking, I have honed my skills at prominent institutions such as Everbright Securities International, The Bank of East Asia, and Bank of China (Hong Kong). I am a proud graduate of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where I acquired a strong foundation to support my journey.

Certificates:
Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation
MIT Professional Education Applied Data Science Program
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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Selected Projects in Data Science and ML


Time Series Forecasting of Stock Volatility and Option Pricing

Fetched market data and conducted risk-return analysis by using various financial metrics on AAPL. Performed EDA, decomposition and tested for stationarity. Analyzed ACF and PACF plots, grid searched best-fitted hyperparameters using parallel programming and built ARMA, ARIMA, and SARIMA models and evaluated their performance. Time-series forecasting on trailing volatility and estimated option pricing with Black-Scholes Model.

Tech: Statsmodels, SciPy, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Python

View code on Colab


Malaria Detection with AlexNet and VGG-16

Built effiicient Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) by using AlexNet and VGG-16 architectures to detect the presence of malaria parasites through the patients’ blood smear images. Performed multiple hyperparameters tuning with Keras, and applied data augmentation and transfer learning.

Tech: TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NumPy, Pandas, Python

View code on Colab


Household Finance Dashboard

An interactive PowerBI dashboard which sources data from MySQL database, and performs ETL workflow to update DB with Apache Airflow. The dashboard provides comprehensive and updated financial insights of household to users.

Tech: Apache Airflow, Power BI, MySQL, Pandas, Python

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View source code on GitHub


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