Zhixuan Xu (George)
Waterloo, Ontario ·

I'm George (徐智瑄), studying math at University of Waterloo sealuwaterloo ('31). I was born in Beijing and came to Montreal in 2017.

I love working on inference1 and AI safety2, BlueDot Impact fellow (London, UK). Also working on cryptography (its applications in 1 and 2) w/ prev a16z logoa16z backed founder (raised 4M pre-seed for last startup).

Selected by Autopoiesis Science logoAutopoiesis Sciences (11M Seed Round. San Francisco) to test their flagship research model Aristotle alongside other researchers. I like to research and write papers, here's one of my papers.

Claude Monet painting of white cliffs and sailboats on a choppy sea
Claude Monet, Cliffs and Sailboats at Pourville (1882)

Literature

I love reading books, especially classic literature (English/French).

  1. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  2. Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
  3. À la recherche du temps perdu (1: Du côté de chez Swann) — Marcel Proust
  4. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
  5. Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (once again)
  7. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
  8. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez

Quote

"Why not go and try it — enough of this dreaming!" — Raskolnikov in (1)

Stocks / Equities

AXTI trade
AXTI (40 → 120)
MRAM trade
MRAM (13 → 36)

Started trading at 15 and manage a US + EU portfolio. Now less active in trading, since I have to focus more on building and research.

favorite hedge fund: Situational Awareness LP

alpo.ge
alpo.ge (famous mathematician, Morgan Prize winner, Anthropic MTS)

email: george.xu [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca