Weiping(Wimen) Zhang

Weiping (Wimen) Zhang has worked for three companies since 2017. In 2017, they were a Quantitative Researcher Summer Intern at WorldQuant, where they participated in the WorldQuant Alpha Research Competition and gained more than 20000 points (golden prize) in two weeks. Weiping(Wimen) also conducted Alpha Research on Websim using different types of data sets, such as price-volume, fundamental, and sentimental. In 2019, they were a Summer Research Intern at HuaTai Securities Co., Ltd., where they conducted quantitative research on finding alpha through genetic algorithm. In 2020, they joined AYR, formerly Singularity Systems, as a Machine Learning Engineer, developing AI solutions (NLP) for Invoice processing/Contract processing (information extraction). Weiping(Wimen) was later promoted to Senior Machine Learning Engineer, helping to set standard training processes for new colleagues. Finally, they were appointed as Chinese Tech Team Manager, providing support to the engineer team, product team, and business team.

Weiping Zhang earned a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018. Weiping(Wimen) then went on to pursue a Master of Business in Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, which they completed in 2020.