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About me

Mathematics, making,
and a little music.

I’m Pengyu Hao, also known as Peter. I study Mathematics with Data Science at LSE and work on software and investment research.

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What connects the work

I enjoy understanding a system well enough to do something with it. In software, that might mean fixing how an agent resumes a conversation. In research, it might mean tracing a company’s cash generation back to its operations.

Mathematics is a useful foundation for both. I’m drawn to problems where careful reasoning and a working implementation can inform each other.

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Education

2026 onward

London School of Economics and Political Science

BSc Mathematics with Data Science

My academic direction brings mathematical reasoning together with data and computation.

2024–2026

Brighton College

A levels

Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Mandarin. Ranked in the top five of my cohort in Further Mathematics and Physics.

2022–2024

Prior Park College, Bath

GCSEs · Full academic scholarship

Eleven GCSE subjects with an average grade of 8.4. Awarded a full academic scholarship.

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Beyond the syllabus

At Brighton, I led a CanSat team and served as editor-in-chief of From Stardust, the school journal. I received Gold in the UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge and placed in the global top 100 in FYKOS Physics Brawl.

Those activities combine several things I value: working through difficult questions, building with other people and communicating technical ideas clearly.

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Away from the screen

I play Go at 5-dan level. The board on the homepage is a small invitation to spend a moment with a game that has been an important personal interest.

I also study classical singing and hold Trinity Grade 8. Music gives me a different kind of practice, one that asks for attention to phrasing, listening and performance.

I speak English and Mandarin at native level, and Cantonese at professional working proficiency.

Have a project, research question or collaboration in mind?

peterhpywk@gmail.com