Undergraduate Research Assistant
NYU Stern TOPS Department
Sep. 2025 - Present
Built a Wikidata ingestion pipeline, improved fuzzy matching, cached LLM responses, and raised multi-model ensemble F1 from 0.884 to 0.9514.
Matthew Zhou
Finance @ NYU Stern + Computer Science @ Courant
I'm a Finance and Computer Science student at NYU interested in building practical, data-driven solutions across software, analytics, and finance. I enjoy working on projects that combine technical problem-solving with real-world applications, whether that's analyzing data, building tools, or exploring how technology can improve decision-making.
Selected work
Projects
NFL Metric Stability
Analyzed how quickly NFL performance metrics stabilize during the season and whether early-season statistics predict remaining point differential. Used Python, Pandas, and statistical analysis to compare signal strength across EPA, success rate, and turnover metrics.
Python Pandas Statistics Data Visualization
Citi Bike Traffic Analysis
Analyzed 2024 Citi Bike trips with weather and holiday data to uncover temporal and spatial patterns. Built geospatial station-demand models and studied neighborhood variance and inter-station co-movement.
Python Pandas GeoPandas Matplotlib Seaborn
Background
Experience
Data Intern
The Barton Partnership
Jun. 2025 - Oct. 2025
Managed candidate datasets for 2,000+ financial services and consulting professionals, using Excel and Python to support market-mapping work.
Data Analytics Intern
NRG Energy
May 2024 - Aug. 2024
Built a Python model to estimate profitability for new retail channel partners and studied Texas deregulated electricity pricing.
Finance Intern
Keywise Capital Management
May 2023 - Aug. 2023
Evaluated EV companies through financial statement analysis, DCF, and comps, then summarized sector trends in weekly reports.