Ray Zhou
Founding Partner at Blackskies Investments
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Zhou is a founding partner and data-driven equity researcher based in Berkeley with a BA in Data Science from UC Berkeley and a near-perfect GPA. He blends hands-on quantitative skills—developed through data science research, NLP analysis of news sentiment, and backend contributions to the Sakai open-source project—with practical investment experience across student-run funds, hedge fund research, and a Morgan Stanley semiconductors summer stint. At Blackskies Investments and Lighthaven Capital he led fundamental and long/short equity research, while managing TMT portfolios and mentoring peers as VP of Fundamental at Capital Investments at Berkeley. His background includes behavioral economics research and consulting for enterprise clients, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and client-facing presentation experience. Equally comfortable with Python data tooling and digging through SEC filings, he seeks to translate quantitative analysis into differentiated investment insights. An early interest in alternative investments and curated content creation hints at a broader curiosity about nontraditional asset classes and investor education.
20 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Data Science, Pre-Business, 3.987, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Data Science, Pre-Business, 3.987 at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, 43/45, High School Diploma, 43/45 at Beijing City International School
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
sakai10
java10
testing10
lms9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Jun 2005 - Aug 2009
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:368 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ray's commits focused on modifying and enhancing the Sakai kernel, primarily within the user directory and authentication components. They addressed issues related to user caching, and improved context-sensitive user aliases, contributing to the overall functionality of user management. The contributions included adding new methods for user retrieval, and addressing the proper behavior of user display ID. The commits touched test files which may indicate responsibility for bug fixing and testing the changes.
diversesakaivlefeature-richfreely
raydavis/nessie
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Networked engines supply statistics in education.
Contributions:258 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
networkedstatisticspythonsupplyengines
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