Yuri Li
Manager at Manulife
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYuri Li is a manager and quantitative engineer with over a decade of combined academic and industry experience, holding a Ph.D. and MPhil in Electronic Engineering and an MSc in Financial Mathematics. He has transitioned from academic research in speech technology and MRI to hands-on financial modeling and derivative pricing at Manulife, where he progressed from Quantitative Analyst to Manager. Yuri blends deep stochastic and statistical modeling expertise with practical software engineering skills across Matlab, C++/C#, Python and Findur, and experience integrating Bloomberg and database systems for production analytics. He has a strong publication record (15 papers) and international collaboration experience as a reviewer and conference participant, underscoring his research rigor. Known as a calm problem-solver and effective communicator in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, he brings both project management discipline and a rare cross-domain perspective spanning speech tech, imaging and finance. An unspoken strength is his ability to translate complex academic algorithms into robust, maintainable production models used in asset-pricing workflows.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Financial Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Financial Mathematics at McMaster UniversityB.Sc., Electronic & Communication Engineering, B.Sc., Electronic & Communication Engineering at Harbin Institute of TechnologyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (33)
caf10
pattern-matching9
vast9
data-visualization8
charts8
svg8
visualization8
async7
javascript7
browser7
apache7
canvas7
angular7
actor7
cpp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
superxcgm/terminal_game_center
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Some typical game implement in a terminal.
Contributions:52 commits, 8 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rustgametypicalterminal
superxcgm/xcShell
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Your own shell
Contributions:28 reviews, 75 PRs, 102 pushes in 8 months
bashshellzsh
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