Ricky Shi
Chief Executive Officer at Occudo Quantitative Strategies
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Shi is a CEO and quantitative researcher with 11 years of experience building systematic trading strategies and scalable machine learning solutions for finance. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and has published 20+ papers with 700+ citations, recognition that contributed to an EB1-A designation for extraordinary academic achievement. Ricky led research and portfolio management teams at Engineers Gate and Morgan Stanley’s Equity Trading Labs before founding Occudo Quantitative Strategies, where he now drives product and hiring growth. He bridges deep academic expertise and hands-on trading implementation, specializing in robust stat-arb and fundamental signal generation. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he combines a rigorous research background with practical deployment experience in production trading systems. An early visiting scholar in data mining at HKUST, he often applies cross-disciplinary methods from academia to improve real-world alpha generation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD. Machine Learning 20+papers 800+ citations, PhD. Machine Learning 20+papers 800+ citations at University of Illinois ChicagoM.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (26)
rollback8
dirty-tracking7
bower7
javascript7
emberjs7
nodejs6
ember6
npm6
ember-addon6
web-development5
ember-cli5
ember-data5
ember-engines4
javascript-framework3
ember-cli-addon3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rickieshi/ember-cli-license
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
Export and display NPM/Bower dependencies
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
bowerdependenciesexportjavascriptnodejs
rickieshi/professional-ts
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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