Zijie Zhao
Quantitative Researcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZijie Zhao is a quantitative researcher at Millennium with eight years of experience blending academic rigor and production trading systems, having completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. His work focuses on statistical arbitrage, financial time-series forecasting, finLLMs, and reinforcement learning for portfolio management, with hands-on experience deploying ML modeling and infrastructure in global markets. Prior internships at Quantbot, Minghong, Ubiquant, and ByteDance show a track record of adapting deep learning techniques to alpha research and recommendation systems. Trained also in biostatistics and biology, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps bridge probabilistic modeling, numerical methods, and practical trading applications. Notably, he has taught computing foundations at Harvard, signaling strong communication skills alongside technical depth.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology at Nanjing UniversityMaster of Science - MS Biostatistics, Master of Science - MS Biostatistics at Harvard University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
microscopy8
biomedical-image-processing8
segmentation8
neuroscience7
computer-vision6
toolbox6
deep-learning5
pytorch5
semantic-segmentation1
semantic1
instance-segmentation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zijzhao1996/test
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:161 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
zijzhao1996/DeepAlpha
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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