About
Qiankun (Kenny) Zhu holds an MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh, is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM, GARP), and reached Gold tier in the WorldQuant BRAIN Challenge — an independently judged systematic-alpha research competition.
What I build
Quantitative finance work: multi-factor equity portfolios with institutional risk reporting, systematic alpha research, equity valuation models, and empirical ESG research — built as reproducible code (Python, Stata, Excel) rather than one-off spreadsheets, with assumptions stated, sources cited, and checks that catch a broken formula before a reader does.
Background
Before Edinburgh: an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a BEng in Software Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
The name
"Qiankun" (乾坤) is a Chinese philosophical term for the universe — heaven and earth, yin and yang.
Portfolio
Case studies for hiring managers are under Projects: a GBP 10M global equity portfolio, WorldQuant BRAIN alpha research, board gender diversity and ESG, a Cisco equity valuation, and a UK finance pay data story.