Jingyu Bao
Quantitative Trader, Power & Natural Gas
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJingyu Bao is a quantitative trader specializing in power and natural gas with 11 years of experience applying advanced statistical methods to energy markets. Based in Toronto, he progressed from quantitative researcher roles to trader at Polar Asset Management Partners, blending statistical rigor from a PhD in Statistics with practical risk and model validation experience from Scotiabank and front-office quant stints. He focuses on modeling, data analysis, and statistical learning to extract trading signals and manage commodity-specific risks. Jingyu’s academic breadth — from Peking University to visiting work at the University of Chicago and a master’s in Financial Insurance from University of Toronto — underpins a research-driven approach to market problems. He is notable for translating deep statistical theory into production-ready trading models in the energy space, bridging academia and front-office execution.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics at Peking UniversityMaster’s Degree, Financial Insurance, Master’s Degree, Financial Insurance at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at Tsinghua UniversityVisiting Student, Spatial Statistics, Visiting Student, Spatial Statistics at The University of Chicago
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
401reputation
13kreached
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Github Skills (10)
git6
sourcetree6
shiny6
bash6
r-package6
ess6
emacs6
r6
jekyll4
plotly3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhongjzsb/zhongjzsb-blog
Feb 2020 - Jan 2024
My personal blog
Contributions:12 PRs, 164 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
zhongjzsb/COVID-19
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:79 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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