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Professor Wang, Weichen 王煒辰

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Assistant Professor

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Professor Wang, Weichen 王煒辰

Title:
Assistant Professor

Short Biography:

Dr. Weichen Wang joined HKU in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his PhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University in 2016. After graduation, he joined Two Sigma Investments as a quantitative researcher where he worked on applying machine learning for equity market forecasting. Dr. Wang also served as a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University for Spring 2020. Before his PhD, he received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University in 2011.

Dr. Wang’s research areas include big data analysis, econometrics, statistics and machine learning, and he is particularly interested in the factor structure of the financial market and real-world applications of machine learning and deep learning. His works have been published in top journals including Annals of Statistics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Econometrics etc.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2016Princeton UniversityPhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering
2011Tsinghua UniversityBS in Mathematics and Physics
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