Bin Xu
Portfolio Manager at WorldQuant
Short Hills, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolBin Xu is a portfolio manager at WorldQuant with 11 years of quantitative finance experience rooted in a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton and advanced physics degrees from École normale supérieure and Peking University. He moved from academic theoretical biophysics-style problem solving into high-frequency trading, applying rigorous mathematical modeling and computational methods to market microstructure and automated trading. Prior roles include quantitative research at Two Sigma and an automated market making internship at Morgan Stanley, reflecting deep experience building production strategies and execution-aware models. Bin combines strong theoretical intuition with hands-on implementation skills from his computational certificate work, enabling fast prototyping and robust deployment in low-latency environments. Based in Short Hills, NJ, he blends academic rigor with practical trading engineering, often translating abstruse physics concepts into actionable alpha signals. An understated thread through his career is a penchant for bridging theory and code to extract trading edge where others see only noise.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Quantum Physics, Master's Degree, Quantum Physics at Ecole normale supérieurePhysics, Physics at Peking UniversityGraduate Certificate, Computational and Information Science, Graduate Certificate, Computational and Information Science at Princeton University
English, Chinese, French, German
Stackoverflow
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523reached
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Github Skills (3)
julia6
solver4
surface4
Github contributions (5)
binarybin/ED_solver
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 months
surfaceexact-diagonalizationsolvertopological-insulators
binarybin/MPS_Proba
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 23 pushes in 1 month
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