Hongyi Zheng

Hongyi Zheng is a Junior Quantitative Strategist at Akuna Capital, a position held since August 2023. Prior experience includes serving as a Natural Language Processing Researcher at NYU Langone Health from September 2022 to August 2023, and as a Research Assistant at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from March 2022 to October 2022. During the summer of 2022, Hongyi Zheng interned as an Algorithm Developer (Quantitative Researcher) at Hudson River Trading. In January 2022, participation in the Akuna Capital Options 201 Program led to a trader intern offer. Earlier experience includes work as a Machine Learning Engineer at Baidu, where a real-time Chinese character recognition model was developed, and contributions to Terra Vision Technologies on OpenGL AR navigation programs and image processing research. Hongyi Zheng has a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Mathematics, Computer Science, and Data Science from New York University, complemented by a high school diploma from Tsinghua University High School.