Zhoutao Zhang
Research Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhoutao Zhang is a quantitative researcher and MS Financial Economics candidate at Columbia Business School with 11 years of analytical experience across asset management, hedge funds, and academic research. He has worked on private equity and real estate research at Columbia while contributing quant strategies for global long/short funds and AI-driven macro research in industry internships. His background blends finance and statistics from UBC Sauder with hands-on multi-factor, index boosting, and ALM work at major Chinese securities firms. Comfortable moving between research, teaching, and production analytics, he has taught capital markets and corporate finance and translated academic models into trading-relevant implementations. Notably, he has rotated through both buy-side quant roles and AI macro internships, giving him a practical edge in deploying data-driven strategies across market regimes. Based in New York, he brings a cross-border perspective and a track record of turning rigorous quantitative methods into actionable investment insights.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Financial Economics, Master of Science - MS, Financial Economics at Columbia Business SchoolBachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance and Minor Statistics, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance and Minor Statistics at UBC Sauder School of Business
Github Skills (200)
python10
automation10
code-generation10
ssh10
network-configuration10
ansible10
golang10
go10
docker10
scraper10
docker-engine10
tiktok-api10
async9
ecosystem9
api9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tio-serverless/tio
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Golang Serverless Framework
Contributions:236 commits, 38 PRs, 227 pushes in 1 year 1 month
golangserverless-framework
andy-zhangtao/shadow-rest
Oct 2016 - May 2022
Shadowsocks-restapi
Contributions:8 releases, 69 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 8 months
rest-api
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