Pin Ren Ph.D.
E-mail:pinren@swufe.edu.cn
办公室：通博楼A505
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science, (2002.9-2007.6), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL USA
Dissertation: “Data Streams and High-Dimensional Data Sets Visualization and the Applications ”
B.S. Computer Science, (1998.9-2002.7), Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Peking University, Beijing, China,
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor(2009.2 —present) College of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Chengdu, China.
Quantitative Analyst/Developer(2007.7—2008.12), HBK Capital Management (large multi-strategy US hedge fund) Dallas/New York, USA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Finance: Quantitative Trading Strategy, High-Performance Algorithmic Trading System, Market Microstructure
Computer Science: Time Series and High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Data Mining, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Network Security.
PROJECTS (Finance Related)
Proprietary Trading Strategy Design (HBK): Lead the research on optimal trading and execution strategy design for Quantitative Relative Value (QRV) and Statistical Arbitrage(SA) trading desks.
Market Microstructure Research and Transaction Cost Analysis (HBK): Lead the research on analyzing market microstructure and modeling transaction cost for firm wide equity trading.
High Frequency Algorithmic Trading System (HBK): Design and implement real-time high performance algorithmic trading system for firm’s proprietary high frequency equity trading.
Histographs: Interactive Visualization of Complex Dataset with Graphs(NU): Designed and developed a general-purpose interactive visualization system to perform visual analysis for large and complex temporal stream datasets and high-dimensional datasets, such as NYSE stock trading data streams.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Publication:
IDGraphs: Intrusion Detection and Analysis Using Stream Compositions
IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, special issue on Visualization for Cyber Security, March, 2006.
Pin Ren, Yan Gao, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Benjamin Watson
Refereed Conference Publication:
Visualizing DNS Traffic
Proceeding of the 3rd International Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec06), Oct. 2006, Fairfax, VA.
Pin Ren, John Kristoff, Bruce Gooch
Ensuring the Continuing Success of VizSec
Proceeding of the 3rd International Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec06), Oct. 2006, Fairfax, VA.
Pin Ren
IDGraphs: Intrusion Detection and Analysis Using Histographs
Proceeding of the IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec05), Oct. 2005,
Minneapolis, MN.
Pin Ren, Yan Gao, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Benjamin Watson
The Features and Implementation of the Web-based Graphics Standard: SVG
Proceeding of the Ninth National Conference on Multimedia Technology, 2000. Bejing, China.
Pin Ren, Guoping Wang, Shihai Dong
Technical Reports：
Histographs: Interactive Visualization of Complex Data with Graphs
Tech Report, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2005.
Pin Ren, Benjamin Watson
Procedural Modeling of Land Use in Cities
Tech Report, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2004.
Thomas Lechner, Benjamin Watson, Pin Ren, Uri Wilensky, Seth Tisue, Martin Felsen
Invited Talk:
IDGraphs: NetFlow Visualization for Intrusion Detection and Analysis
Invited Talk, Graphics and Visualization Student Symposium, 2005, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY.
Pin Ren
AWARDS
Water Murphy Fellowship: McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, 2002
Chun-Tsung Fellowship/Scholar, Awarded by Nobel Laureate Dr.Tsung-Dao Lee, Peking University, 2000
SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Poster Session Chair, ACM Symposium on interactive 3D Graphics and Games(I3D) , San Francisco, CA, 2006
Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angels, CA, 2005
Chair, Social Dept, Chinese Student and Scholar Association(CSSA), Northwestern University, 2004-2005