CV
Basics
| Name | Yixi (Xander) Zhou |
| Label | Incoming Ph.D. Student |
| zhouyx2022@shanghaitech.edu.cn | |
| Url | https://xanderzhou2022.github.io/ |
| Summary | Incoming Ph.D. student in computer science at Hong Kong Baptist University (2026–2030, expected), advised by Renchi Yang. Research direction: data agent. Member of HKBU LAGAS Group (Database Lab). Remote RA at MBZUAI (financial AI, Preslav Nakov and Zhuohan Xie) and at The University of Tokyo & Nikkei (financial LLM, Fan Zhang and Yu Chen). B.S. from ShanghaiTech University and University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
Work
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2025.11 - present Research Assistant (Remote)
The University of Tokyo & Nikkei
Financial LLM. Supervised by Fan Zhang and Yu Chen.
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2025.11 - present Remote Research Assistant
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
Financial AI. Supervised by Preslav Nakov and Zhuohan Xie.
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2025.08 - 2025.10 Co-Author
AI Project — Inclusive Credit Scoring
Fairness and interpretability in credit scoring; nighttime-light features.
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2025.08 - 2025.10 First Author
AI Project — Financial Document QA
Multi-agent reranking for financial document question answering.
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2024.11 - 2025.01 Leader & Author
Media Engagement Prediction Challenge
Media engagement prediction; tree-based and neural models.
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2024.09 - 2025.01 Group Leader & First Author
Quadratic Programming Solvers Research
Quadratic programming solvers; IRWA and ADAL for mixed constraints.
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2024.01 - 2024.05 Group Leader & First Author
Named Entity Recognition in FinTech
Named entity recognition in financial texts; HMM and CRF.
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2023.09 - present Undergraduate Researcher
ShanghaiTech University, Financial Intelligence Laboratory
Life trajectory classification from Wikipedia; LLMs and syntactic graph fusion.
Education
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2026.09 - 2030.06 Hong Kong SAR
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2025.01 - 2025.08 Madison, WI
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2022.09 - 2026.06 Shanghai, China
Awards
- 2024.01.01
- 2024.01.01
Publications
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2026.01.01 FinCARDS: Card-Based Analyst Reranking for Financial Document Question Answering
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06992
Co-authored with F. Zhang, Y. Chen, H. Zhang, P. Nakov, Z. Xie.
Skills
| Programming | |
| C/C++ | |
| Python | |
| MATLAB | |
| JavaScript/HTML/CSS | |
| SQL | |
| MongoDB |
| ML & Data | |
| LLM Fine-Tuning | |
| Snowflake | |
| Airbyte | |
| Elasticsearch |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Research | |
| Machine Learning | |
| NLP | |
| Financial AI | |
| Life Trajectory Classification |