CV

Boyu Hou

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Portrait of Boyu Hou

Education

2022–2026

University of Bristol

BEng Computer Science and Electronics

Selected coursework

  • Linear Circuits and Electronics72
  • Computer Systems B65
  • Machine Learning62
  • Artificial Intelligence60
  • Major Project68 · 40 credits
2019–2020

Newcastle University

International Foundation Year. Top 5% of the cohort.

Mathematics 1 and 2, Principles of Computing, Study Skills and ICT, English for Academic Purposes.

2017–2019

Delia School of Canada

Ontario curriculum. Calculus and Vectors, Financial Accounting Fundamentals, Business Leadership: Management Fundamentals.

Research

2026

VDBC-Mamba-2: Visual-Delta Band Conditioning for Causal Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement

B. Hou. Single-author preprint, submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2027.

Paper · Code · BibTeX

Projects

2025–2026

Integrated Market Risk Monitor: VaR and Machine Learning

Four one-day VaR forecasts for SPY, backtested on 2023–2025 data using only past information.

2025–2026

HMM Market Regime Detection

Market regimes from a Gaussian HMM with forward filtering, tested as state-conditional VaR on ten assets.

2026

Causal Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Mamba

University of Bristol final-year group project. Co-led a six-person team. Supervised by Dr F. Karameh.

Experience

2024–2026

Houmoon Ltd.

Founder. AI wellbeing app built with React Native and Firebase, tested internally by about 100 people. The company was dissolved in May 2026 before any public release.

2023–present

Shenzhen Yingjia Investment Consulting Co., Ltd.

Investment Analyst (part-time) since June 2025. Portfolio Assistant (part-time) from November 2023 to May 2025.

Responsible for RMB 500,000 and HKD 500,000 of investment capital. Kept trade and position records, prepared weekly summaries of profit and loss, drawdown and exposure, and applied position-sizing and stop-loss checks.

Tools

Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, hmmlearn, pandas, React Native, Firebase.