CV
Boyu Hou
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[email protected] (university address, may stop working after graduation)
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Education
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
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.
Delia School of Canada
Ontario curriculum. Calculus and Vectors, Financial Accounting Fundamentals, Business Leadership: Management Fundamentals.
Research
VDBC-Mamba-2: Visual-Delta Band Conditioning for Causal Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement
B. Hou. Single-author preprint, submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2027.
Projects
Integrated Market Risk Monitor: VaR and Machine Learning
Four one-day VaR forecasts for SPY, backtested on 2023–2025 data using only past information.
HMM Market Regime Detection
Market regimes from a Gaussian HMM with forward filtering, tested as state-conditional VaR on ten assets.
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
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.
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.