OPEN · 2026/27 · HK

HKU BEng Data Science & Engineering · Minor in Digital Health · Class of '27

I turn noisy signals into decisions.

XIE Jintao — Hong Kong. Production trading systems, LLM agents, and health-data models — open-source and statistically honest.

CAREER TRACE — SIGNAL LOCKED2023 → NOW

Every spike is a choice. Existence precedes essence — this line is what I chose to become.

  • 2023HKU BEng start — Data Science & Engineering
  • 2024Eng Recognition · HKAE pitch winner
  • 2025AlGreen freelance · IIQE I & III
  • 2026InsurPrime · football 10/10 folds · EEG · memory-os
  • NOWOpen — quant · actuarial · AI · health-data
0Screening participantsMentalTap · zero-shot
0Sharpe ratioUS equity AFML · p=0.0033
0Mean log growthHKJC football over/under
0Top global rankInsurPrime · premiums
0Engineered featuresBTC platform · live pipeline
0Statistical testsone suite · 6 categories

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Why I build

Existence precedes essence.

Sartre's claim — we are not born with a fixed nature; we become through what we do. These pages are the record of that becoming.

Medicine

The body, read as signal — EEG, PPG, health cohorts. The physiology of being.

Finance

The market, read as a mind — risk, edge, decision under uncertainty. Being, priced.

Arts

The signal, drawn as feeling — this artwork is the record of that.

Engineering

The making itself. To exist is to act; to act is to make.

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."— Jean-Paul Sartre
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."— Friedrich Nietzsche

Engineering makes innovation. Innovation makes impact.

The career trace is my answer — not a summary of what I am, but the record of what I chose to become.

The signal

One operator, four channels.

Pick a channel — it plays live. Every claim is on the record, linked to the open-source work that backs it.

Recorded instruments

hkjc-football-modelGH ↗

Football over/under ML pipeline — walk-forward validated, production-deployed.

+4.408 mean log growth · 10/10 folds · 5 arXiv papers

Flask · XGBoost · LightGBM · CatBoost · DuckDB · Kelly

us_stock_fundamentalGH ↗

AFML factor strategy for the S&P 500 — weekly rebalancing, VIX regime switching.

Sharpe 1.77 · p=0.0033 · significant excess return

LightGBM · LambdaRank · VIX regime · Python

EKFDMD_trading_BinanceGH ↗

End-to-end live BTC trading platform — ingestion to live execution, 4 exchange markets.

170+ features · 20+ statistical tests · 30-second decision loop

Python · ccxt · Bybit · EKF · DMD · Kelly

memory-osGH ↗

Hierarchical memory system for LLM agents — cognitive-science-inspired consolidation.

hot · warm · cold · hybrid retrieval scoring

LangChain · ChromaDB · SQLite · LLM

HKJC_Horse_v2GH ↗

Benter-style exotic-pool model — win odds fused with fundamentals, robust Kelly sizing.

Harville / Plackett-Luce · q05 Kelly

Conditional logit · PyTorch · Kelly · Python

alphagen_cryptoGH ↗

Reinforcement-learning discovery of formulaic alpha factors for crypto.

RL-generated · formulaic alpha

Reinforcement learning · factor mining · Python

All projects on github.com/jintaoxie02 — every one open-source and documented. ↗

The proof

Validated, not vibes.

Every number on this page is from a real, open-source project. The chart is the walk-forward record — 10 out-of-sample folds, every one profitable.

OUT-OF-SAMPLE VALIDATION · 10 FOLDS10 / 10 PROFITABLE

hkjc-football-model · 16,886 matches · 113 leagues · +4.408 mean log growth · 5 arXiv papers implemented.

0Matches validated113 leagues · all folds profitable
0Folds profitablewalk-forward · out-of-sample
0arXiv papers implementedprobability · calibration
0Open-source reposall documented

The index

Skills, mapped to the proof.

Search or click any skill — every project that uses it, with the evidence and the repo.

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The paper trail

Credentials, in writing.

Education

2023 – 2027BEng Data Science & Engineering, Minor in Digital Health
The University of Hong Kong · Year 4, graduating 2027

Experience

Jan 2026 – nowResearch — EEG computational psychiatry
HKU Innovation Wing, Faculty of Engineering
Jul – Sep 2025Programmer (Freelance) — AlGreen
Arduino · ESP32 control software · Hong Kong

Awards

2024 – 25Winner — HKAE Pitch Competition
2024 – 25HKU Engineering Recognition Ceremony

Credentials

SOA Exam PProbability · passed · Nov 2020
IIQE Paper IPrinciples & Practice of Insurance · Sep 2025
IIQE Paper IIILong Term Insurance · Sep 2025

Skills

LanguagesPython (primary) · R · SQL · TypeScript
ML & statsPyTorch · scikit-learn · LightGBM · XGBoost · CatBoost · statsmodels
AI & agentsLangChain · ChromaDB · Next.js · RAG · function calling
InfraDuckDB · ccxt · Git · GitHub Actions · Telegram

Languages

SpokenCantonese (native) · Mandarin (native) · English (fluent)