Putting theories into practice
Loh Yu Jin is a 3rd year undergraduate in the School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University, majoring in Business Analytics and Fintech. He is also a Quantedge Foundation Scholar since 2017. Yu Jin was a member of the winning team in the UBS Group Chief Operation Office Case Challenge 2019. He hopes to embark on a career in the financial services or the consulting industry when he graduates. |
Moving forward, with domain knowledge in finance as well as information technology, I hope to develop solutions that reduce inefficiency in current business models.
Understanding the industry is very important. As such, I took part in various case competitions, hackathons and coding challenges, as well as networking sessions, to get to know the requirements for future job opportunities. I believe that these experiences are extremely crucial in discovering what I actually want and to open up a path for me to work towards my dreams. |
"Understanding the industry is very important… As such I took part in various case competitions, hackathons and coding challenges, as well as networking sessions, to get to know the requirements for future job opportunities. I believe that these experiences are extremely crucial in discovering what I actually want and to open up a path for me to work towards my dreams."
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Compared to the school project, the case challenge demanded much more in a shorter time, but also assured us that whatever was taught in class is actually relevant in the outside world. We are thankful to be able to apply what we had learnt to solve UBS’ business problem.
We did not join the challenge with the intention of winning, but to learn from the process. We were thus pleasantly surprised when we were shortlisted as one of the Top 5 finalists. From then on, we took the challenge even more seriously and gave it our all. Our group’s assigned mentor, who had a wealth of industry expertise and experience, also gave us good advice on how to sharpen the presentation of our solution to the judges. |
"Compared to the school project, the case challenge demanded much more in a shorter time, but also assured us that whatever was taught in class is actually relevant in the outside world."
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The Bosch Ville 2018 Hackathon was a hackathon that required us to prototype a solution using Internet of Things sensors. A coding-based challenge, our team faced a very steep learning curve, having had only half a year of Python programming knowledge prior to the hackathon. Dionysus, my teammate, wrote an article about our hackathon experience here.
2019 CodeIT Suisse was yet another coding challenge by Credit Suisse for university students passionate about technology. Groups were tasked to solve small but real-world problems using various algorithms. As most of the problems did not have a full solution, the focus was on getting an optimal algorithm that would give the correct output for any given input (including corner cases), while keeping the code running within the runtime limit. |