Philip Kung

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Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer

    Riverstone Home Owners Association

    - 2 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Supported residents affected by Hurricane Harvey by completing a post-Hurricane cleanup process (remove hardwood floors, dry wall, insulation, fumigation) on over 10 residential properties

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    Volunteer

    All Saints Episcopal Church

    - Present 5 years

    Poverty Alleviation

    Help prepare, cook, and serve free home-cooked meals to Austin's homeless and working poor every Friday.

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    Volunteer

    Gamma Beta Fraternity, Inc.

    Health

    Raised over 300 dollars through selling made-to-order omelettes for the Jade Ribbon Campaign, an organization that serves to educate Asian Americans on the dangers of Hepatitis B

Honors & Awards

  • 3rd Place - Future of Work Hackathon

    YGC Ventures

  • 2nd Place - HackUNT

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  • 2nd Place - LeapHacks

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  • 1st Place - BP Natural Gas Trading Competition

    British Petroleum

    - Used a combination of fundamental & technical analysis to predict natural gas prices within BP's commodity trading simulator
    - Generated close to 24 million in P&L with a standard deviation of returns below 4%.

  • 1st Place - DECA ICDC Stock Market Game

    DECA

    - Achieved >70% return within a 3 month period using quantitative & technical indicators

  • 1st Place - Quantopian Case Competition

    UFA & MISA

    - Used Pandas & NumPy to program a trading algorithm based off a mean variance & moving average analysis
    - Returned > 300% over the S&P 500 within a 15 year period while maintaining a beta of .20 and a Sharpe Ratio of 1.03

  • 1st Place - Startup Simulation

    Asian Business Students Association

    - Pitched a startup that uses big data & internet of things to help farmers reduce water usage
    - Designed a Neural Net that uses data from UAV modeling, ground sensors, and national weather APIs to direct retrofitted irrigation systems to efficiently dispense water.

  • 3rd Place

    Tamu Datathon

  • 4th Place - Texas Stock Pitch

    University Securities Investment Team

    - Pitched Enterprise Products Partners, a midstream oil & gas company to a panel of professionals from the financial services industry
    - Used a variety of GAAP & non-GAAP quantitative models such as the dividend discount model & net asset value model to project equity price

  • Finalist

    HackTX

  • HackTX Finalist

    Freetail Hackers

Languages

  • Mandarin Chinese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Cantonese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Gamma Beta

    Design Chair

    Gamma Beta is a fraternity dedicated to the betterment of men through morality, discipline, responsibility, unity, and academics.

  • Texas Convergent

    Business Operations Analyst

    As UT’s first interdisciplinary entrepreneurial organization, Texas Convergent aims to equip students, of differing disciplines, with the necessary skills and resources to drive the future of innovation.

  • Texas Financial Derivatives

    Vice President

    Texas Financial Derivatives is UT's premier high level derivatives trading organization. The club educates students interested in trading about risk management & hedging techniques, trading methodologies, and derivative pricing while creating a community that connects the network of traders around the UT campus.

  • Texas MMA

    Instructor

    Texas MMA is an organization that provides an outlet for martial arts enthusiasts to train on campus. Instructors lead weekly workouts centered around multiple disciplines such as Greco-Roman Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muy Thai, and Boxing.

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