Serena Peng is a vice president and portfolio manager at PIMCO with eight years of experience blending quantitative methods and global macro insight across interest rates and FX. She holds an MFE from UCLA Anderson and a dual B.Sc in Accounting and Finance with a philosophy minor, combining rigorous analytics with broad intellectual curiosity. Serena’s early work spans multi-asset quant research, private equity and operational finance, and she contributed to WeightWatcher by analyzing DNN weight matrices—an uncommon bridge between ML diagnostics and finance. Based in Los Angeles, she’s known for continuous learning and for applying cross-disciplinary techniques—Python, R and statistical modeling—to translate data-driven signals into portfolio strategy.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Financial Engineering, Master, Financial Engineering at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Summer Exchange Program, History and Psychology, Summer Exchange Program, History and Psychology at University of Sussex
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Study for Fun and Interest, Investment, Technology, Philosophy, and Psychology, Study for Fun and Interest, Investment, Technology, Philosophy, and Psychology at Autodidact
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Serena Peng - Vice President, Portfolio Manager at PIMCO