Aidarkhan Zhubatkan

About

B.Econ&Fin & Math (HKU). Quant-minded analyst with experience across M&A analytics, risk modeling, and data products. Comfortable in Python/R/SQL, time-series, and simulation; enjoy shipping useful tools and clear dashboards.

IEO 2024: Silver medalist (International Economics Olympiad)
FMVA: Corporate Finance Institute Certified
Deep Learning: WorldQuant University — Applied AI Lab

Quick facts

LocationHong Kong & Kazakhstan
InterestsQuant research, sports analytics, policy, teaching
LanguagesEnglish, Kazakh, Russian (multilingual)
AvailabilityOpen to projects in quant / data / finance
PythonRSQLTime-SeriesMonte CarloOptimization

Experience

Quantitative Summer Analyst — Ernst & Young (Central Asia HQ)
May 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Built Python/SQL ETL + interactive dashboards for 10K+ financial records—accelerated M&A insights by 30%.
  • Automated due-diligence report generation—standardized outputs, cutting analysis time by ~40%.
  • Equity screening with scikit-learn surfaced undervalued securities; expanded pipeline by 25% and saved ~35 research hours/month.
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Risk Management Intern — Financial Monitoring Agency of Kazakhstan (Astana)
May 2024 – Jul 2024
  • Built risk models (logistic regression & decision trees) improving high-risk detection by ~25%.
  • Automated data cleaning in pandas/SQL—cut prep time ~40%.
  • R-based scenario analysis & stress testing—recommended 3 policy enhancements.
PythonpandasSQLRDecision Trees
Data Science Intern — Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations & Aerospace Industry (Astana)
Dec 2023 – Feb 2024
  • Automated Python contract generation for 3 major IT firms—reduced error rate ~15%.
  • Trained anomaly-detection classifiers on transaction logs, achieving ~95% accuracy.
  • Python ETL + KPI dashboards for cybersecurity—shortened policy reviews by ~25%.
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Founder & Full-Stack Developer — DAAR (Aktobe)
Aug 2020 – Apr 2024
  • Shipped a Unity 2D framework (C#) to 20K+ installs with a 4.95 rating via steady maintenance & updates.
  • Django-based internal social app—10K+ online users; 1M+ requests/month.
  • In-game chat (Unity C# + Firebase)—scaled to 15K+ online at ~99% uptime.
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Education

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
B.Econ&Fin & Math
  • Focus: Quantitative finance, statistics, optimization.
  • Activities: Trading/quant teams, research projects.
WorldQuant University
Applied AI Lab
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and transfer learning for image classification and object detection.
  • Training in Vision Transformers (ViTs) and attention-based architectures for modern computer vision tasks.
  • Practical modules on model deployment with Flask and Streamlit for building interactive AI applications.
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (Physics & Math)
Cumulative GPA: 4.00 • SAT 1510 (M 790, V 720)
  • Olympiads, leadership, UNESCO initiatives.

Leadership & Activities

Founder — International Economics Club
Sep 2023 – Feb 2025
  • Organized Asian Economics Olympiad (2,500+ participants, 18+ countries); raised $50,000.
  • Managed 1,750+ volunteers across 9 countries.
  • Developed & sold an economics curriculum to 3 schools.
President — UNESCO Club
Sep 2022 – Jan 2025
  • 20+ charity fairs; $15,000+ raised.
  • 80+ volunteers; 3,000+ trees planted.
  • “Say No to Plastic” initiative (plastic waste ↓ ~60%).
Captain — National Economics Olympiad Team (KZ)
Jun 2024 – Apr 2025
  • National team ranking 7/53.
  • Training design & moderation liaison.

Skills

Python (NumPy, pandas, SciPy, statsmodels) R C++ SQL MATLAB LaTeX Time-Series Monte Carlo Optimization Machine Learning

Courses

HKU

Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

  • Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®): CFI's Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification imparts vital financial analysis skills, emphasizing constructing effective financial models for confident business decisions. This comprehensive program ensures mastery in modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and overall competency in accounting and finance.

Coursera (DeepLearning.AI & Stanford University)

Publications

Projects

GitHub

  • Convulational Neural Network: Convulational Neural Network Model for recognition of hand-written digits. The model uses sequential model involving 2d Conculational Layers and the result is obtained by Linear layers for classification purposes. The model is trained using CrossEntropyLoss with Adam optimizer.

In the News

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +852 4491-3027
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aidarkhanzhubatkan
Location: Hong Kong & Kazakhstan