Ethan Huang
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Ethan Huang

Operations Research & Information Engineering @ Cornell

Previously @ Fireclay Partners, SupplyBistro

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Ethan Huang

Cornell University, College of Engineering

Operations Research & Information Engineering

Summary

Second-year student in Cornell University’s College of Engineering, majoring in Operations Research and Information Engineering with a minor in Business for Engineers.

Education

Cornell University, College of Engineering

Operations Research and Information Engineering major, Business for Engineers minor

Testing & awards: SAT 1570 / 1600, AIME qualifier (×5)

Experience

Fireclay Partners

Investment Banking Analyst

Details

As an investment banking analyst at Fireclay Partners, I wrote ten-page industry and company analyses across the Industrials and TMT sectors and pitched more than ten investment opportunities drawn from that research. I also coordinated diligence and managed stakeholder communication across live M&A and private equity transactions. On two of those deals, I applied discounted cash flow, comparable company, and precedent transaction analyses while collaborating with the broader deal teams.

SupplyBistro

AI & Investment Intern

Details

At SupplyBistro, I built the core financial models, key performance indicators, and unit economics, and I co-built the nineteen-slide pitch deck that supported the company’s seed-round conversations with investors. To fill the top of that funnel, I scraped Crunchbase, PitchBook, and LinkedIn to assemble a pipeline of more than 400 venture capital and angel investors, more than ten of whom converted into introductory and diligence calls. I also built and deployed API-driven automation across the company’s operations, reducing processing and review work that previously took several hours to under thirty minutes.

Activities

Cornell Undergraduate Asia Business Society

Social Chair, Analyst

Details

I joined the Cornell Undergraduate Asia Business Society as one of seven new members admitted from more than a hundred applicants, and I completed its competitive ten-week business education program. The program covered eight industries and included training in three-statement modeling, valuation, and research on Bloomberg and Refinitiv. As an analyst, I pitched a Dassault Systèmes–Cadence M&A deal and a long thesis on On Holding (ONON), building the models, comparables, and valuation for each. I also serve as the society’s social chair.

Cornell DEBUT Project Team

Operations Team Member

Details

I am a member of the operations team for Cornell DEBUT, a biomedical device project team. I manage the team’s $25,000 operating budget and raised more than $2,500 on Cornell Giving Day to fund team operations and project work. I hosted a research conference that showcased more than ten biomedical device projects, spanning prototyping through go-to-market strategy, and I support the team’s social media operations, which have grown its account to more than 1,000 followers and widened student engagement on campus.

Cornell DEBUT team video

Social Business Consulting

Associate Consultant, Recruitment Chair

Details

I am an associate consultant with Social Business Consulting. For ElevenLabs’ Impact Program × Professors, I built an AI-native workflow and go-to-market strategy that has since launched publicly. For the Red Cross, I surveyed more than a hundred students and benchmarked more than ten competitors, then translated the findings into four Figma prototypes. As recruitment chair, I have screened more than 300 applicants across two semesters and run campus events that drew more than 1,000 attendees.

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ElevenLabs Impact Program × ProfessorsLaunch post

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Red Cross Youth Hub prototypeOpen in Figma

Projects

Automated Insider Signal Equity Strategy

Details

I built a systematic equity strategy in Python that screens SEC Form 4 insider filings and manages positions with Kelly sizing, bracketed risk, and exits triggered when the signal weakens. In backtesting, the strategy returned 23.6% annualized against 14.5% for SPY, with a Sharpe ratio of 1.15 and a maximum drawdown of 10.9% compared with 32.2% for SPY over the same period. I then deployed it live for three months, during which it returned 12.3% against a 1.8% loss for SPY across fifteen trades, with a 67% hit rate, a 2.2× win-to-loss ratio, and a 3.9% drawdown.

Backtest
Annualized return
23.6% (SPY 14.5%)
Sharpe ratio
1.15
Max drawdown
−10.9% (SPY −32.2%)
Live, three months
Return
+12.3% (SPY −1.8%)
Hit rate / win-loss
67% / 2.2×
Drawdown, 15 trades
−3.9%

Automated Prediction-Market Liquidity Provider

Details

I built a market-making pipeline in Python that screens more than 11,000 prediction markets and uses hazard-rate entry models, checked against holdout tests, to decide when to provide liquidity. Backtesting across more than 2,700 market-hours showed that fill probability decays 145× after entry, so I validated the entry gates with placebo and Poisson tests before trading. A one-month live test earned approximately $25 per day on approximately $250 deployed, net of measured adverse selection and capped by order-book depth.

Backtest
Markets screened
11,000+
Market-hours tested
2,700+
Fill-probability decay after entry
145×
Live, one month
Daily P&L on capital deployed
~$25 on ~$250