Rui Zhao
Director Of Capital Markets & Machine Learning at National University of Singapore
Singapore
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Top SchoolRui Zhao is a Director of Capital Markets & Machine Learning based in Singapore with six years of industry experience and a PhD in Machine Learning from Nanyang Technological University. He blends academic rigor—evidenced by a highly cited publication record and Stanford’s Top 2% scientist recognition—with hands-on leadership building data and quant teams from zero to scale across Singapore and Indonesia. At Pluang he now splits time between treasury, trading infrastructure and ML, having previously led the company’s data organization and delivered production-scale recommender and trading systems. His background spans large-scale ML platforms (Hadoop, Spark/MLlib), multilingual recommendation and machine translation, and quantitative trading strategies with a managed portfolio Sharpe above 2.2. An adjunct faculty member at NUS, Rui uniquely bridges research, teaching and high-stakes financial operations, bringing both deep technical insight and practical market infrastructure experience.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, 4.85/5.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, 4.85/5.0 at Nanyang Technological UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.82/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.82/4.0 at Southeast University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
diffusion-models10
video-editing10
castle10
optical-flow10
arxiv10
sky10
video-understanding10
survey8
computer-vision7
pytorch6
energy6
deep-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ruizhaocv/ruizhaocv.github.io
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:227 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
ruizhaocv/ruizhaocv
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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