# Allison Jin

> ORIE & CS @ Cornell Engineering

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allisonjin

## Work Experience
### Quantitative Developer - Asset Liability Management @ New York Life Insurance Company
Jan 2026 – Present
Incoming Summer 2026

### ORIE Researcher @ Cornell Engineering
Jan 2025 – Present

### Financial Software Engineer @ Cornell FinTech Club
Jan 2025 – Present

### Co-VP of Dance @ BreakFree Dance Crew
Jan 2024 – Present

### Mentoring Program President @ Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Research Intern @ Columbia University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Designed a novel Learn-to-Transit (L2T) algorithm for the NP-hard MaxCut problem by formulating it as an Ising system and training an LSTM-based recurrent neural network to approximate transition probabilities toward ground states
- Optimized L2T to achieve solutions within 1.14-3.50% of best-known optima on benchmark graph instances (100-10000 nodes) and up to 0.94% better cut quality than Gurobi, all while running 37-60x faster
- Co-authored peer-reviewed IEEE publication with Columbia University collaborator; presented findings at the MIT IEEE Undergraduate Research Technology Conference 2023 to a hall of 100+ researchers

### Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) Scholar @ Hampshire College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- One of 46 students selected globally to participate in the prestigious 6-week math summer program

### Teacher @ MathCup Acadamy
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City
- Designed and taught competition-level math curriculum + problem-solving sessions for elementary and middle-school students


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Operations Research and Engineering & Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2024

### High School Diploma
Stuyvesant High School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allison-jin-826a0b262

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Last updated: 2026-04-01