Colin Lu

Quantitative Researcher at Tower Research Capital

Colin Lu is a seasoned quantitative researcher currently employed at Tower Research Capital since March 2020, with previous experience as a derivatives trader at Optiver from August 2014 to March 2019, focusing on CME Treasuries Futures and working on equity index and oil futures. Colin has a solid foundation in education, having served as a teaching assistant at Art of Problem Solving and a research assistant at the Yale School of Management, where data gathering and analysis for asset-pricing projects were conducted. Additional roles include grading for advanced mathematics courses at Yale's Mathematics Department and a summer associate position at Citadel LLC, utilizing MATLAB and Excel VBA for data analysis. Colin's early career features a quantitative analyst internship at Wall Street North and research at Yale’s Chemistry Department, contributing to advanced chemical reactions. Colin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Mathematical Economics from Yale University.

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Tower Research Capital

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Founded in 1998 by Mark Gorton, Tower Research Capital is a trading and technology company that has built some of the fastest, most sophisticated electronic trading platforms in the world.


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