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.

Dr. Hui Fan is currently an Assistant Director at AIG’s Asset Management group, where his team is in charge of building the quantitative investment platform to forecast the financial performance of investments at AIG and help facilitate the Chief Investment Officer in making strategic investment decisions. The system is also the foundation of CCAR stress testing and budget reporting at AIG Asset Management. 

Prior to AIG, Hui spent 6 years at Morgan Stanley’s risk department and Moody’s derivatives group, with rich experiences in risk management, modeling and trading. He is a CFA Charter Holder and an active contributor to Seeking Alpha. He also won the 2nd Prize in the 2013 TCFA Global Investment Contest. Hui has a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S./M.S. from Tsinghua University. 

Dr. Shawn Fan is a fixed income Portfolio Manager at LGIMA，an US affiliate of London-based Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of Europe’s largest institutional asset managers and a global investor, with a heritage dating back to 1836 and AUM of over $1.2 trillion. At LGIMA, Shawn is responsible for the customized liability-driven-investment portfolio management and quantitative strategies on bond asset allocation optimization, pension risk transfer, and index rotation.
Before joining LGIMA, he was a director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group where he led a quant team to build up quantitative analytics. He prototyped a margin model for clearing cross currency interest rate swap. Prior to CME, he was an Associate Director at UBS as a desk quant for Latin America emerging market structured product trading and interest rate derivative trading.
Shawn holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a M.S. in Mathematics in Finance at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. His Chinese translation of book “Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering” was published by Higher Education Press in 2013.

Shawn has been a long-time member of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) and was the CTO of TCFA before he moved to Chicago. Since 2018, Shawn has been serving as the Chairman of the TCFA Chicago Chapter. Together with a small amazing team, Shawn has organized and hosted seven well-attended events in two years. In those events, invited experts from both China and US have covered a variety of topics including Chinese stock market, the impacts of Luckin Coffee fraud, mental health under COVID-19, bio-tech investment, and financial career development.