Zhizhou Li
FINTECH INNOVATION at Self-employed
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhizhou Li is a fintech-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of industry experience and a PhD in cryptography from The Ohio State University. He has held software engineering and staff roles at Palo Alto Networks, The Voleon Group, and Facebook before founding a self-employed fintech innovation practice that applies AI and cloud technologies to design, implement, and backtest trading algorithms for non-programmers. His research background includes fully homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation, bringing rigorous privacy and security thinking to algorithmic trading and product design. Zhizhou blends academic depth with hands-on production experience across finance, security, and large-scale systems, and he is selective about client engagements, emphasizing quality over volume. Based in the United States with strong engineering roots from Tsinghua University, he offers demos to translate complex models into usable trading tools without leveraging prior employer data. An uncommon angle: he pairs cryptographic research insights with practical ML/cloud deployments to create trading solutions that consider both performance and data confidentiality.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering, Automation at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cryptography at The Ohio State UniversityProgramming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AltinGame/CMPUT250
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 100 PRs, 164 pushes in 2 months
CMPUT301W19T05/ShareBook
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 232 commits, 85 PRs in 1 month
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