Jiayi（Jade） Qian

Jiayi (Jade) Qian is a Computer Science and Statistics student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where they maintain a 4.0 GPA and are a James Scholar. They are passionate about quantitative trading and have built backtesting frameworks for equity and options markets. Jiayi has served as a Math Teacher at Think Academy U.S., engaging over 300 students, and is currently a Quantitative Researcher at WorldQuant, designing and testing high-quality alpha signals. Additionally, they have experience as a Software Engineer at Altmoni and as a Research Intern at Nanjing University.