Hello world!
Contact: clarezhu [at] alumni [dot] stanford [dot] edu
Vita
I hail originally from Shrewsbury, MA.
I hold a Bachelor's as well as a Master's degree in Computer Science which I completed coterminally at Stanford.
During that time, I also completed a minor in Mathematics. My coursework consisted of primarily machine learning, followed by theory and algorithms.
In the past five years, I've counted these cities among my homes: Palo Alto, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Miami.
I have been a quantitative researcher at [current-employer] since 2020.
Previously at D. E. Shaw Research, Schrödinger, Stanford's Pande Lab, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Shi Lab at NIDA, Amaro Lab at UCSD.
Miscellaneous
Speaking
Talks given: Stanford (2024), Princeton (2023), UC Berkeley (2023).
Performing
- Last attended: Bon Bon 2025.
- Romany Polka at the Stanford Viennese Ball. February 2019.
- Bohemian National Polka at the Stanford Viennese Ball. February 2019.
- Russian Mazurka Quadrille (alt version) at the Stanford Viennese Ball. February 2019.
- "Rhythms" with Múa Lạc Hồng, Dinkelspiel Auditorium. February 2017.
- "Listen to the Silence" with Múa Lạc Hồng, Cubberley Auditorium. January 2017.
- "Breaking Ground" with Múa Lạc Hồng, Dinkelspiel Auditorium. December 2016.
- "Contemplation by Design" with Múa Lạc Hồng Vietnamese dance, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA. November 2016.
Media
At Stanford
- Get a zipcar and take all your friends to Safeway at 3 AM for a late night snack run. (Legends are born at the Secret Safeway, but I won't tell you which one that is.)
- Ask the folks at Late Nite to make you a milkshake with "everything." They should know what that means.
- Alternatives to fountain hopping: Climb the McMurtry rooftop, eat an Ike's sandwich, go to Maus after dark, bring a floatie to Lake Lag, climb the gutters behind MemChu, invite yourself on a tour of the steam tunnels...
- I am told that they renovated and fortified the Main Quad crawlspace but I'm sure that alone won't stop Stanford's best.
Other
- Leo.
- Three things.
- Typeracer.
- World Cubing Association.
- Royal Conservatory of Music classically trained in piano with Level 7 practical examination (First Class Honours) + Level 8 Theory, 2009.
- Sigma Psi Zeta, Omicron Chapter, Rho class.
- Minor planet 32315 is named after me and is potentially a binary/contact binary asteroid!
- According to the most reliable Uncyclopedia, I am one in a septillion.
- Other past lives: ballet, Chinese traditional dance, social dance, varsity forensics, coaching competition math, marching band, aviation, aquaria.