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Lunch with Dr. Xin Feng
February 14, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Dr. Xin Feng is an alumnus of our Ph.D. program. He has had a very successful career in quantitative finance.
Dr. Feng is eager to share his insights on upcoming opportunities in the field with our students. He will discuss how utilizing the resources and courses offered by our Statistics Department and MA Program can help prepare them for success. For more information, please refer to the latest edition of the MA Newsletter.
From Dr. Xin Feng:
After getting my PhD, I worked briefly in the educational testing industry for 9 months, then started my career in quant trading. Working at hedge funds and a prop desk in a bank, I primarily worked on statistical arbitrage strategy in global equity and managed futures strategies. Luckily I experienced the whole flow from building alpha, to constructing portfolio and doing execution.
After working in New York for 10 years, I set up WizardQuant in China in 2013. Starting with just a few people, we have grown into a multi-billion quant hedge fund with a team of over 150 people in 5 different offices in New York, Shanghai (headquarters), Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu. We work with data every day, try to understand the patterns in the data, forecast the movement of financial instruments and see the result almost instantaneously, which is quite exciting.