Jian Wu
Senior Vice President, Quantitative Research
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJian Wu is a Senior Vice President of Quantitative Research based in New York with 11 years of experience building and leading alpha-generation teams at Two Sigma. With a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell and a B.Eng. from Tsinghua, he blends rigorous academic training with proven industry impact across research, portfolio construction, and management. He progressed from quantitative researcher to senior leadership at Two Sigma, running a high-performing research organization focused on global equities. Notably, he has hands-on experience from a Citadel internship and sustained research contributions dating back to his doctoral work, and is currently subject to a non-compete through August 2024.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Operations Research at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Automation, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Automation at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
algorithms10
machine-learning10
gaussian-processes10
hyperparameter-optimization10
bayesian10
cpp10
optimization10
python9
espn8
tflearn7
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
data-science5
neural-network4
recurrent2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wujian16/Cornell-MOE
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
A Python library for the state-of-the-art Bayesian optimization algorithms, with the core implemented in C++.
Contributions:392 commits, 82 PRs, 350 pushes in 3 years 8 months
bayesiancpppythonbayesian-optimizationmachine-learning
wujian16/Sigmetrics
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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