Yicheng Wang
Assistant Professor at Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolYicheng Wang is an Assistant Professor and quantitative finance researcher with eight years of experience across academia and industry, combining a PhD focus in quantitative finance with hands-on quantitative trading and risk modeling. Proficient in Python, C++ and SQL, he has built distributed trading platforms, developed market-neutral and crypto trading strategies, and managed end-to-end data pipelines for US and China markets. His background includes roles at universities (HKU, SUSTech, NYU) and quant firms where he translated research into production-ready strategies and systems. Comfortable with agent-based modeling and machine learning, he bridges theoretical research and practical implementation, often working on medium-frequency alpha development and cryptocurrency trading. Based in Shenzhen, he brings both academic rigor and practitioner pragmatism to roles in quantitative research, trading, and fintech.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Financial engineering, Master of Science - MS, Financial engineering at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringHigh School, High School at Saint Joseph Central High SchoolThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
foundation-models9
machine-learning8
data-science7
bayesian3
bayesian-inference2
nlp2
transformers1
python1
matrix1
inference1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wangy8989/Pairs-Trading-with-Machine-Learning
May 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
wangy8989/Option-Pricing-Package
May 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes in 4 years
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