I’m Yrieix, a first-year business student at HKUST, with an intended focus on quantitative finance. I’m interested in financial markets, the maths behind them, and turning good questions into useful work.
Neither does this little thing.
Current plan: keep going.
0 obstacles introduced. Motivation is minding its own business.I’m early in the journey. These are the questions I want to spend more time on.
Financial markets, market microstructure and quantitative research. I’m interested in the mechanisms behind a price, not just the number on a screen.
How information, trading and uncertainty fit together — while building the mathematics, economics and statistics foundations to study them properly.
Advanced Mathematics in school, then co-founding a peer tutoring initiative. Explaining the steps is part of understanding them.
At Lycée Victor-Duruy, I helped students work through mathematics. I’m now building on that quantitative foundation and my early Python experience at HKUST.
GridReady put a business question next to an infrastructure constraint. Our team built a prototype and won the hackathon.
A promising site still needs power. The prototype explores grid constraints and estimated upgrades so that a business discussion starts with better questions.
My attention, when someone says “there’s an interesting problem.”
Move your mouse or tap the field. Arrow keys move the point of interest.
Currently attracting more questions than answers.
Our team’s winning project at the Hong Kong AI Summit hackathon, October 2026. Built around a real infrastructure question.
Before building a data centre, there’s a less glamorous question: can the grid actually power it?
With my team, we built GridReady: a prototype exploring electrical feasibility in Hong Kong. It uses a simplified public-data model to compare grid constraints and potential upgrades. We won the hackathon with this project.
The question
How can an early site decision account for grid constraints?
The approach
A simplified model built from public maps and published information. It explores simulated grid demand and compares potential upgrades before a site commitment.
What it puts on the table
Capacity constraints, overloaded equipment and upgrade options with estimated cost and duration. The goal is to make an early feasibility conversation more concrete.
The result
A working team prototype, a project presentation and a hackathon win in Hong Kong, October 2026.
The boundary
Capacity and cost figures are estimates. This is a prototype, not an engineering assessment.
Still curious. Still learning. Still going.
DETERMINATION, NOW WITH SCROLL SUPPORT.Early experience, student initiatives and plenty still to learn.
Work experience in a law firm, with exposure to legal analysis and the day-to-day work of a practising lawyer.
A one-week placement across three sites, discovering production, finance, legal and other corporate functions.
Co-founded a peer tutoring initiative and helped students work through mathematics.
Led committee debates, managed proceedings and facilitated discussion between delegates.
Developed public speaking, structured argumentation and communication through debate sessions at Lycée Victor-Duruy.
Helped younger students understand and choose their Première academic specializations.
It has yet to convince me to stop making one.
Tap to bend the grid. With a mouse, pull a point and let go. Arrow keys work too.
The plan is taking this surprisingly well.
Rowing. Golf.
Probably thinking about markets.
I want to understand how markets work — and get better at the tools that help explain them.
My interests include market microstructure and quantitative research. I’m building on high-school Python experience and a strong interest in mathematics, while learning the fundamentals of business.
Before HKUST, I studied in Paris at Lycée Victor-Duruy. Alongside classes, I got involved in maths tutoring, debate, Model United Nations and helping younger students choose their specializations. I like a question I can work through — and a conversation that makes me reconsider the answer.
BSc student, School of Business and Management.
Intended focus: Quantitative Finance.
Investment Circle · General Member.
French Baccalauréat, Mention Bien.
Mathematics & HGGSP, with Advanced Mathematics.
Economics and Social Sciences in English (DNL).
Physics and Chemistry specialization in Première.
Debate club facilitator and student guidance.
Python: core programming concepts from high-school coding, with quantitative applications as a direction to develop.
Excel: basic skills.
Mathematics: advanced secondary-school coursework and a quantitative orientation.
Hi, I’m Yrieix. Nice to meet you.
English · IELTS Academic 7.0French · native
English · IELTS Academic 7.0
Mandarin Chinese · A2
Finance, maths, a hackathon… apparently curiosity doesn’t travel in straight lines.
Change the curve or tap to turn it. Arrow keys rotate it.
All of these detours are educational. Allegedly.
The maths tutor, the market-curious student and the person who insists on one more try. Click responsibly. Or don’t.
One number breaks the +2 pattern. Which one?
The maths tutor in me would like a word.
The plan is ready. Reality has not reviewed it yet.
A fictional student-life index. Not a personal performance score.
“Strategically positioning myself for long-term professional growth.”
Timing matters. The boat is very direct with its feedback.
Rowing, minus the wet shoes.
A useful reminder that wanting it really badly is only part of the equation.
Optimism: high. Ball: unconvinced.
Race my suspiciously consistent rival. Press Row when the marker reaches the blue zone. Well-timed strokes move you further.
A tiny race. An unnecessarily personal commitment to winning.
Tap Row, or use the space bar while Row is focused. Let the marker come back before the next stroke.
20 seconds. Plenty of time to become competitive about this.
Have an internship, a role or a project in mind?
I’d be happy to hear about it.