Yiyang Zhang

Yiyang Zhang

Ph.D. Student in Finance

Georgia Institute of Technology

Biography

Yiyang Zhang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Finance at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. Before this, he obtained two master’s degrees from the University of Michigan, specializing in Quantitative Finance & Risk Management and Applied Statistics. His research interests lie in asset pricing, and he also has a keen interest in quantitative trading in stock and futures markets, option pricing, machine learning and deep learning techniques, and statistical modeling.

Yiyang completed his undergraduate studies in finance at Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, and was one of seven individuals to earn the International Mathematical Class certification offered by the college in 2020. In addition to his academic pursuits, Yiyang was the captain of the college’s table tennis team in 2018 and 2019, leading the team to its best performance in the last decade.

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Interests
  • Asset Pricing
  • Quantitative Trading
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Artificial Intelligence
Education
  • Ph.D. Student in Finance, now

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • MSc in Applied Statistics, 2023

    University of Michigan

  • MFE in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, 2023

    University of Michigan

  • BSc in Economics, 2020

    Sun Yat-sen University

Skills

R

100%

Python

100%

Statistics

100%

Programming

100%

Mathematics

100%

Experience

Working Experience & Internship Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug 2023 – Jun 2028 Atlanta, GA, U.S.

Responsibilities include:

  • Help the research on multiple projects, topics including risk perception, event jump, machine learning and deep learning, and the linkage between personality and company strategies.
  • Teaching Assistant for class MGT 4070 International Finance (Undergraduate Section) and MGT 6070 International Finance (MBA section) in Fall 2023.
 
 
 
 
 
CITIC Securities Co., Ltd.
Quantitative Trader
CITIC Securities Co., Ltd.
Dec 2022 – Mar 2023 Remote, Beijing, China.

Responsibilities include:

  • Research on a quantitative trading strategy based on the return skewness of the commodity futures. Use multiple methods in volatility control and portfolio optimization to improve the strategy’s performance.
  • Build hedging models for the quantitative trading system.
  • Research on the compile method for the commodity future indices.
 
 
 
 
 
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Research Assitant
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023 Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.

Responsibilities include:

  • Calculate and analyze the CDS return and replicate algorithms based on provided papers.
  • Prepare and Calculate the multi-factor data for the stock market.
 
 
 
 
 
Chain Bridge Fund LTD.
Quant Research Intern
Chain Bridge Fund LTD.
Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 Remote, Singapore

Responsibilities include:

  • Edit Open-sourced quantitative trading software and build required functions for cryptocurrency trading.
  • Research and build quantitative trading strategies for cryptocurrency and corresponding futures.
 
 
 
 
 
Huatai Securities Co.
Fix-Income Research Intern
Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 Shenzhen, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Do the data mining and statistical analysis on city investment bonds.
  • Research portfolio optimization algorithm and use deep learning techniques to improve the trading strategy.
 
 
 
 
 
GuangjinMeihao Fund Management Co.
Quant Research Intern
Jun 2020 – Nov 2020 Guangzhou, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Researched the quantitative strategy of quantitative sub-funds of FOF investment and conducted quantitative sub-fund investment feasibility analysis and evaluation.
  • Successfully developed a stock index arbitrage trading strategy and an alpha strategy based on Equity-bond yield difference.
 
 
 
 
 
Global Honest Investment Group
Valuation Modeling Intern
Jul 2019 – Nov 2019 Guangzhou, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Did the financial modeling and cash flow forecast for the company’s investment projects and assisted in making feasibility analysis reports.
 
 
 
 
 
Promising Capital
VC Project Intern
Dec 2018 – Mar 2019 Shanghai, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Participated in the business plan analysis and research of the startup companies and built the single-store profitability financial model for profit forecasting.
  • Conducted fundamental analysis and financial analysis of select U.S. and Chinese companies.
 
 
 
 
 
YunFeng Capital
Analysis Intern
Oct 2018 – Oct 2018 Hong Kong, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Do financial analysis under instruction for selected H share stocks and help to write the analysis report.

Accomplish­ments

Kaggle Competitions Expert

Competitions Results:

  • Optiver Realized Volatility Prediction: Silver Medal
  • G-Research Crypto Forecasting: Silver Medal
  • LLM Prompt Recovery: Silver Medal
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Coursera
Data Analysis with Python
Data Analysis with Python
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Coursera
Python for Data Science, AI & Development
Python for Data Science, AI & Development
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