Xugan Chen
PhD Candidate
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXugan Chen is a PhD candidate in Financial Economics at Yale School of Management with eight years of quantitative research experience bridging mathematics and finance. He holds dual degrees in Mathematics and Finance from Zhejiang University and served as a pre-doctoral fellow and research assistant at Yale’s Economics/Tobin Center and SOM, supporting empirical and theoretical projects. His work combines rigorous mathematical training with applied financial modeling, and he maintains a personal research homepage highlighting his papers and projects. Based in New Haven, he brings a track record of collaborating across economics and finance labs and a knack for turning complex quantitative problems into actionable research insights.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Financial Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Financial Economics at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (14)
gmm9
random-effects8
linear-models8
panel-data8
backtesting7
prediction-model7
event-driven6
regression6
seemingly-unrelated-regression6
statistics4
statsmodels4
data-models3
python1
spider1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xuganchen/backtest
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Event-Driven Backtesting
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 65 pushes in 4 months
event-drivenbacktesting
xuganchen/xuganchen.github.io
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:148 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 3 months
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