Yifan Zhou

Yifan Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer at Citadel, focusing on Commodities Engineering within the Core Risk Team since March 2021. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Simulation Engineer II at Chevron from November 2012 to March 2021, where Yifan led R&D projects for a commercial reservoir simulator and advanced GPU parallelization and multiscale simulation techniques. Previous roles at Stanford University as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant involved research on reservoir simulation and teaching graduate-level courses. Yifan's early career included internships at ExxonMobil and Chevron, contributing to reservoir simulation advancements. Educational qualifications include a PhD and M.S. in Energy Resources Engineering and Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University, along with a B.S. in Information and Computational Science from Peking University.