Guofu Zhou
Bierman And Spears Professor Of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolGuofu Zhou is the Bierman and Spears Professor of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis with over three decades of academic experience and 11 years in his current endowed role. His research blends empirical asset pricing, investor sentiment, behavioral finance, and machine learning to tackle predictability, anomalies, and portfolio optimization across markets including China. Trained in mathematics and computational math (Chengdu, Academia Sinica) and holding a PhD in Economics from Duke, he brings rigorous quantitative and Bayesian methods to real-world asset-allocation and mutual fund/hedge fund questions. He publishes extensively—research papers are regularly posted on his faculty page—and leverages big data and technical analysis to probe investor behavior. Unusually for a senior finance academic, he also codes in Rust, Python, Next.js and Swift, signaling hands-on engagement with modern tooling for empirical finance. Based in Missouri, he combines deep theoretical grounding with practical machine-learning approaches to inform both academic and practitioner audiences.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Mathematics at Chnegdu Branch, Academia SinicaMaster's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Duke UniversityBSBA, Math, BSBA, Math at Chengdu University of Technology, BSBA
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Github Skills (52)
java9
ripple9
vue9
xrp9
consensus7
nft7
documentation7
rust6
mnemonic6
rust-cargo6
private-key6
ethersjs6
js5
api5
bitcoin5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ligulfzhou/android-synchronize-contacts
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ligulfzhou/gopsutils
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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