CV

Basics

Name Yixi (Xander) Zhou
Label Incoming Ph.D. Student
Email zhouyx2022@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Url https://xanderzhou2022.github.io/

Work

  • 2025.11 - present
    Research Assistant (Remote)
    The University of Tokyo & Nikkei
    Financial LLM. Supervised by Fan Zhang and Yu Chen.
  • 2025.11 - present
    Research Assistant (Remote)
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
    Financial AI. Supervised by Preslav Nakov and Zhuohan Xie.
  • 2023.09 - present
    Undergraduate Researcher
    ShanghaiTech University, Financial Intelligence Laboratory
    Life trajectory classification from Wikipedia; LLMs and syntactic graph fusion.

Education

  • 2026.09 - 2030.06

    Hong Kong SAR

    Ph.D. (Incoming)
    Hong Kong Baptist University
    Computer Science
  • 2025.01 - 2025.08

    Madison, WI

    Visiting Student
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Sciences
  • 2022.09 - 2026.06

    Shanghai, China

    Bachelor of Science
    ShanghaiTech University
    Computer Science and Technology

Awards

  • 2024.06.15
    Second Place, PWC Polytechnic Student Challenge
    PWC
    Generative AI Risk Management

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