Rui Zhao
Head Of Data & Quant
Singapore
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Top SchoolRui Zhao is Head of Data & Quant at Pluang with 11 years of experience building large-scale ML and quant systems, having grown the data science and quant team from zero to 19+ in under a year. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Nanyang Technological University and is ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists, with over 6,000 citations. Rui blends academic rigor with product impact—leading recommendation, MT, and trading systems in companies like Shopee and Harveston where his managed portfolio achieved a Sharpe ratio above 2.2. He teaches ML and data science as adjunct faculty at NUS, and has deep hands-on experience with Hadoop, Spark (MLlib) and production ML at massive scale. Notably, his work spans both consumer-facing personalization and real-money trading, demonstrating an uncommon ability to translate research into profitable, production-grade systems.
11 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, ChineseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rz0718/BT5153_2024
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
rz0718/reading-notes
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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