Yiwei Liu is a Fixed Income trader at a hedge fund where she is responsible for investing in US interest rates and derivatives products. Previously, she was a Vice President at Credit Suisse, where she worked at both XVA management and Securitized Products group.

Yiwei holds a Master Degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University; and a dual Bachelor Degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Peking University.

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Yigang (Sam) Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer at Zhejiang Metals And Materials Co, a Fortune 500 company which distributes steels, oil and wood products. Sam plays a pivotal role in spearheading the company's digital transformation efforts which enhance operational efficiency while mitigating risks. Previously, Sam was a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. He and his team crafted a latency monitor platform for the global equity and option market, leveraging cutting-edge big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka and Scala. This groundbreaking platform revolutionized the monitoring and optimization of the global information distribution and trading network. Sam's contributions left an indelible mark on Bloomberg's ability to provide speedy and reliable services in the competitive financial landscape. Sam's academic journey includes an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University of Technology.
From 2022 Sam served on the core team of TCFA. He used his technical strength to solve problems and optimize processes to ensure the success of every single event . His work includes email notification, events registration, online and in-person conference broadcasting, website maintenance, fixing and improving many other technical issues.

Ningxin Wang is a quantitative market lead at Affirm Inc, where she works on quantitative modeling and analytics for the company’s capital structuring deals. Before joining affirm, she worked at BofA Merrill Lynch and Citibank in quantitative modeling and credit analytics roles. She also worked in Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where she provided auditing service for high-tech clients.

Ningxin holds a MS degree in Financial Mathematics from The University of Chicago, and a BA degree in Financial Engineering from Nanjing University

Shawn Fan is the Head of Solutions and Research at Legal & General China, responsible for developing the company’s business of cross-board investment and pension asset management in China. Before transferring to the China team, Shawn had worked as a fixed income Portfolio Manager at LGIM America, a US affiliate of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). Before joining LGIM America, he
was a director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group where he led a quantteam to do research on margin models and build up quantitative analytics. Prior to CME, he was a desk quant at UBS for Latin America’s emerging market structured product trading and interest rate derivative trading. Shawn also worked briefly in Bear
Stearns/JPMorgan on risk management.
Dr. Fan is currently the chairman and board director of the Chinese American Financial Association (TCFA). Under his and his team's joint efforts, TCFA's global membership has increased from 8,000 to nearly 10,000 in two years, and it has also successfully held nearly 15 online and offline events during that time. The 2022 annual conference hosted by Dr. Fan attracted over 160,000 online and offline viewers in total.
Dr. Fan will begin a 7-month program at Harvard Business School's Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) in December of this year. Dr. Fan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Financial Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. In 2022, he published an article entitled " A financial ecosystem for
retirement and pension in an aging society" in the Tsinghua Financial Review, and translated the classic financial engineering textbook "Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering," published in Chinese by Higher Education Press in 2013.

Wenzhe Zhao is an Economist at Progressive Capital Management, helping manage a $60 billion total return-driven fixed-income investment portfolio. Before his tenure at PCM, he was a Director and a senior Global Economist at Credit Suisse. Recognized for his profound and distinctive research, Wenzhe provides valuable insights to the bank's core clients across various asset classes and geographic regions. His research interests include monetary policy, financial economics, interest rates, inflation, semiconductors, manufacturing supply chains, labor market, and economic development. His research is frequently cited by leading financial media outlets.

Before relocating to New York, Wenzhe lived in London. He received a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Cambridge University and a First Class BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is the President-Elect of TCFA.