Zhoutao Zhang
Research Assistant at Columbia Business School
New York, New York, 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
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)
automation10
code-generation10
backbone10
ecosystem10
python10
ssh10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
network-configuration10
classification10
gateway10
segmentation10
ansible10
golang10
container10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
andy-zhangtao/AwesomeDockerfile
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:145 commits, 141 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
andy-zhangtao/blog
Apr 2021 - Jun 2024
My new blog
Contributions:4 PRs, 182 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
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