Lingyin Zhu
Chief Investment Officer, Partner at NicheTech LLC
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolLingyin Zhu is a quantitative investment leader and partner with eight years of formal experience directing research-driven portfolios and a broader 15+ year track record across prop trading, asset management, and financial consulting. As CIO and Partner at Qinyuan Asset Management and founder of NicheTech, she blends machine learning, econometric modeling, and market-microstructure insights to design systematic equity and fixed-income strategies. Her background spans balance-sheet risk modeling at Capital One to statistical arbitrage at Ronin Capital, giving her a rare fluency across front-office trading signals and enterprise risk management. Trained as a physicist (PhD-level) and advanced finance/Accounting scholar, she emphasizes simplicity in models—“everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”—while pursuing academically grounded, practical solutions. She also brings commercial real estate and actuarial consulting experience, enabling cross-asset perspectives often overlooked by pure quant shops. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, Lingyin combines entrepreneurial grit with rigorous quantitative discipline to bridge research and portfolio implementation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ABDs, PhD candidates, Finance (major) and Accounting (minor), expected, ABDs, PhD candidates, Finance (major) and Accounting (minor), expected at SUNYNankai UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at University of Florida
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (168)
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Github contributions (5)
dmzlingyin/step-up
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 156 pushes in 8 months
dmzlingyin/LOCR
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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