# Ethan Dawn

> Software Engineer @ The Voleon Group | Caltech Alum

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ The Voleon Group
Jan 2025 – Present | 紐約地區
A machine learning-driven quantitative hedge fund company.

### Head Teaching Assistant @ Caltech
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
▪️CMS/CS/Ec/EE 144 - Networks: Structures & Economics (2025 Winter)

### Teaching Assistant @ Caltech
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
▪️CS 38 | CS 138 - Algorithms 
This course covers major design techniques such as greedy approach, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, linear programming. Held weekly office hours, review recitations, and graded problem sets and exams.

▪️Ma/CS 6a | 106a - Discrete Mathematics 
This is an introductory course in number theory, graph theory, combinatorics, power series and generating functions, and partitions. Held weekly office hours, prepared solutions to problem sets, graded problem sets and exams, and worked with students who need extra help.

### Undergraduate Researcher (Mathematics) @ Caltech
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Research under Professor Matilde Marcolli, Robert F. Christy Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. 

Data analysis on exceptional linear (binary/ternary) codes generated from linguistic syntactic structures on subsets of languages. 

Attempts to 1) prove that codes generated from syntactic parameters of languages modeled by a Markov model on a tree lie probabilistically below the Gilbert-Varshamov bound, disproving the hypothesis that languages can be modeled by a Markov model; or 2) capture non-stochastic patterns in the construction of codes from the Longobardi/LanGeLin and SSWL language database.

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Voleon Group
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Teacher @ Pano Education
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Mathematics and Statistics

### Software Engineer @ MoBagel
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
A leading predictive analytics platform that empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions using AI and machine learning.

### SEE Quantitative Trading Program @ Jane Street
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Selected as one of 40 participants from US colleges to explore mock trading, arbitrage, and probability through an immersive finance program.

### Teaching Assistant @ Taipei American School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Teaching Assistant for AP Computer Science. Tasks included helping student’s assignments, after-class tutoring , and substitute for teaching.

### Data Manager and Scrum Master of Development & Data Science Team @ Covid-Data.info
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Developed a project application with ESTM Berlin Germany to help health institutions research COVID-19 in Germany.

Utilized information from ordinary and COVID-19 patients from Berlin’s hospitals to find correlations
between parameters such as blood type, diet, and medicine intake and COVID-19 spread.

Created a neural network with the information from German patients, including COVID-19 status, and
found a common trait between the patients with and without COVID-19.

### Teaching Assistant @ Pano Education
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Textbook: “The Whirlwind Tour of Python Language” by Jake VanderPlas and “Deep Learning with Python” by Francois Chollet. 

Cooperated with Boston University Professor Soltanieh-ha in his international summer online course - Machine Learning & Computer Vision.  

Prepared in-person class materials and assisted project assignments for high school students.

### Research Assistant in Advanced Material Division @ TSRC Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
TSRC (TW:2103) is a Taiwanese public listed company,  is one of the largest synthetic rubber and elastomer companies in the world. 

Worked as an paid summer intern to research in uses of rubber wastes in electric car tires.  

3-day independent business trip to Kaohsiung and Kong Shan factories in southern Taiwan.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (major), Economics (major); Information & Data Science (minor)
Caltech

### Taipei American School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ethanzdawn

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Last updated: 2026-04-13