Owen Chen ‘24 Recruiting Profile

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High School Information

High School:

Concordia International School Shanghai

State:

International

Academic Accomplishments

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Awards, Achievements and Activities

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  • High Honor Roll (G9
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  • G10
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  • G11) National Honor Society (G11
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  • G12) Won second place award and cash prize in the NTU-IBM Quantum System Qiskit Hackathon Taiwan 2022 hosted by the NTU-IBM Hub and sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan as the youngest contestant out of 60+ invited college students and engineers in the 48-hour state-level quantum computing hackathon. Received an advanced (highest level) badge from IBM for completing all four labs in the and coding challenges in the IBM Quantum Challenge Fall 2022 on error-mitigation
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  • machine learning
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  • molecule simulation
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  • etc... 1600+ challengers from across the world attempted
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  • with less than 600 successfully completing all tasks. Ranked top 18% of 722 in the QHACK Quantum Coding Challenge 2023. National Silver for Physics Bowl 2023. Won first place in NHD China 2022 for creating group documentary “Acceptance Before Equality: Integration Through Service” (21+ participating schools) and special award o
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  • ● Member of the SQCS Taiwan (Student Quantum Computer Society)
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  • a society of young
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  • experienced advocates of quantum computation composed of Taiwanese Students from the first-generation class of IBM Quantum Computing course (2020) focused on learning
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  • competitions (hackathons)
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  • and proliferating education on quantum computing. Co-organized with graduate students to host the SQCS 2023 annual quantum computing conference for nurturing quantum computing young users. Events include lectures
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  • coding competitions
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  • and the showcase of previous quantum-related projects such as circuits or games. Reached out to university professors
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  • technological institutions
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  • and scientific societies for sponsorship and cooperation for the event. Finalized the English version of the event description as well as other documents in order to internationalize the event. ● Founded Community Cat House and raised more than $1
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  • 000 USD to implement TNR and health care
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  • cat houses
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  • and food for stray cats in the community in 2020; Created WeChat public account ''Cat house'' for promoting TNR benefit and donation; Mentored several communities to implement their own Community Cat House. Achieved neuter rate of about 80% in the community from 2022 until now and helped around 70% of 2nd generation of stray cats during covid become adopted by community members. ● Starter on the school Varsity Soccer team for 2 years and played in competitive soccer club Aksil for 8 years; won several 1st places in China
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  • and 2nd place in Asia. ● Starting forward for 3 years on the school Varsity Basketball team and JV team in freshman year. Played for competitive basketball club Riptide for 2 years
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  • won 2nd place in Shanghai YGA Big 3 tournament 2022 and 3rd place in 2021. ● 1 year Track and Field Varsity. ● Served 2 years as a student leader and attended 4 years in the KG youth group to organize events. ● One of 12 selected out of 200+ applicants to represent the Taiwan team to attend SJYC (Sino-Japan Youth Conference hosted by UWC) for an 80+ hour conference on the “Yasukuni Shrine issue’’ with representatives from Japan
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  • China
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  • and Hong Kong in 2021; One of 10 selected out of 250+ to represent the Taiwan team to attend SJYC for a 50+ hour conference on the “Senkaku Islands Issue’’ with representatives from Japan
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  • China
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  • and HK in 2022. Provided insights representative of respective regions and researched related historical events to pacify existing tensions across Asian communities through the form of communication and debates. Promoted cultural understanding and the unity of previously fragmented communities of people in both events. ● Conducted an individual research paper
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  • “Enhancements and Applications of Series Acceleration” based on the acceleration of convergent series. Derived two formulae that exponentially sped up the calculation of convergent monotonic and fluctuating series and proposed possible applications on the modern technological industry as well as theoretical topics. Research paper peer reviewed (4+ reviewers) and accepted for publication on the International Journal of High School Research (IJHSR)
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  • which is internationally indexed by EBSCO. ● Interned at BYD Semiconductor manufacturing lab for one month in June 2023. Shadowed engineers and technicians
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  • experienced semiconductor chip manufacturing processes inside the fab
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  • attended a meeting with potential investors on future projects
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  • and operated programs to locate defects/microparticles in semiconductor wafers. ● Offered position in the Cambridge Future Scholar program from CCIR for “Foundational Problems of Quantum Physics: Quantum Measurement and General Relativity”
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  • with the CCIR STEM Scholarship for the Cambridge Future Scholar Program of summer 2023. Admission rate is about 20% and scholarship winners of about 35% of those enrolled. ● Editor of school science paper (Scientia)
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  • and math tutor (MNHS) from 2020 to 2022. ● Member of the National Honor Society (2022-2024)