Hui Shao is a Director in Quantitative Strategy Group in the equity Global Market of Bank of
America Merrill Lynch. The team is mainly responsible for the quantitative solution development
and financial engineering in equity sales and trading business. Previously, he was a Director in the
Global Risk Analytics of BofA. The team is responsible for the development of models and system
for fair value adjustment, counterparty risk management, regulatory capital calculation, stressed
testing. Before BofA, Hui worked as a Senior Manager in the Quantitative Advisory Service in Ernst
and Young and quantitative analyst in Moody’s Investors Service. Hui holds a Bachelor’s Degree in
Physics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University

Jing, is currently the Director of Quantitative Execution Services at a quant fund in NY. She got her M.S. degree in Operations Research from Columbia University, B.S. in Biology from Tsinghua University and B.A. (double degree) in Economics from Peking University. Since May 2021, Jing has also served as the president of Tsinghua Alumni Association of Greater New York.
 
Being extremely enthusiastic about contributing back to the communities, Jing has been volunteering in various NGOs. In particular, Jing served in Tsinghua Alumni Association of Greater New York for more than 8 years, and was elected to be the president in May 2021. From Jing's work and volunteer experience, she is well connected in the industry, and has accumulated years of experience organizing events. Jing has been participating in TCFA events since 2014 and shares the values of the organization. She is looking to contribute to the organization.

Dr. Kun Gao is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sherbrooke Park Advisers, a quantitative hedge fund actively applying innovative algorithms to invest in global markets. Sherbrooke Park Advisers exists at the intersection of finance and technology, combining the deep industry knowledge of quantitative researchers with the technical prowess of software engineers. It leverages the collective expertise of its team to seek new investment opportunities, control risk, and provide useful services to its investment partners.

Prior to founding Sherbrooke Park Advisers, Gao was the Head of Quant Equity Research at AIG Investments, the asset management arm of the insurance giant. Building the trading business from the ground up, Gao recruited and retained high performers, instilled a culture of excellence, and integrated sophisticated infrastructure to drive results. Under his leadership, the business delivered strong audited track records each year since inception. Before joining AIG, Gao was a senior portfolio manager at leading U.S. hedge funds, including Tudor Investment Corporation, Balyasny Asset Management, and WorldQuant. Gao started his investment career at Morgan Stanley’s proprietary trading group.

Gao is a long-term trustee of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA). He is also a co-founder and trustee of The Youth Fund, a nonprofit organization that connects Asian-American youth with industry leaders to assist in their career development. He contributed a book chapter about quantitative equity trading for Financial Engineering (Wiley, 2011).

Gao received a B.S. in Statistics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University.

Maggie Wang is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Structured Products Research at
Citigroup. Maggie started her financial career at JP Morgan as a research analyst in 2007 and headed
US CLO & CDO research at JP Morgan before joining Citigroup in 2014. Maggie advises over 900
global institutional clients on fixed-income investments, including banks, insurers, hedge funds,
private equity, and family offices. She regularly speaks at global conferences and publishes research
on structured credit markets, cross-asset relative value, trade ideas, and CLO manager evaluations.
Maggie has been a top-ranked analyst in the All-American Institutional Investors survey since 2007,
and she is frequently featured on Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the WSJ, and Barron's. Maggie
holds a Master's Degree in Computer System Engineering from Boston University, where she was
a Ph.D. fellow, and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology in China.

Devoting into financial industry for 12 + years , Wen li is currently a Senior Director and global head of securitization content at Moody’s Analytics. Her group is responsible for creating content and analytics for securitization professionals in RMBS, ABS, CLO, CMBS and Esoteric asset classes. Moody’s Analytics Structured Finance Solution is a leading provider of data, software, cashflow services , research and advanced analytics in global structured finance market serving nearly 500 domestic and global institutions and over 2000 indirect and direct clients via third party partners .

Previously , Wen worked in Citi Group Global Market New York before join Moody’s . Wen is a CFA Charterholder and also actively serving as a mentor of Women’s BRG and Pan-Asia BRG in Moody’s .

Wen has a M.S. in Finance from SUNY at Buffalo and a B.S. in Economics from University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

Yanbo is a Senior Quantitative Analyst in Neuberger Berman, responsible for assisting in managing the
Investment Grade Index Funds and Multi Sector Credit funds. She also works on Fixed Income quantitative
analysis and research. Before joining the frm, Yanbo worked for BofA Merrill Lynch and MSCI in quantitative
modeling and credit risk roles. Yanbo received her BA in Finance from Peking University of China, Master in
Quantitative Finance from Georgia Tech, and her MBA from the Booth School of Business.